777 Japanese Proverbs / Page 27
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Speak well of others.522.
Spend words as efficiently as money.523.
Spending it is like pouring water into sand.524.
Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.525.
Stupidity begins with honesty.526.
Suspicion bears dark devils.527.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice inside the ceiling laugh.528.
Teaching is half learning.529.
Ten men, ten minds.530.
Ten men, ten tastes.531.
The absent get further off every day.532.
The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.533.
The bandits in the mountain are easily subjected, but it is difficult to subject the bandits in my heart.534.
The base of a lighthouse is dark.535.
The bean paste that smells like bean paste is not the best quality.536.
The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.537.
The boaster and the proud person are fools.538.
The caged bird dreams of clouds.539.
The cat is a saint when there are no mice about.540.
The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul.