613 Proverbs about Them / Page 11
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Look not at thieves eating meat, but look at them suffering punishment.202.
One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them.203.
Opinions are like nails: the more often you hit them the deeper they penetrate.204.
People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.205.
The maker of laws must be severe; who executes them must be generous.206.
The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.207.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.208.
The scholar builds the cities, the woman knocks them down.209.
Whoever tears his clothes must mend them himself.210.
If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.211.
Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.212.
He who has not been given brains from above will not buy them at the apothecary.213.
If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.214.
They are most cheated who cheat themselves.215.
Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat.216.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.217.
He that hath no children doth bring them up well.218.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.219.
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.220.
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