777 Japanese Proverbs / Page 9
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.162.
Day has its eyes, night has its ears.163.
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.164.
Deceiving a deceiver is no knavery.165.
Depend on your walking stick, not on other people.166.
Destroy a country, but its mountains and rivers remain.167.
Difficulties make you a jewel.168.
Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk -- time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.169.
Do good things quickly.170.
Do not prophesy to the man who can see further than you can.171.
Do not stay too long when the husband is not home.172.
Don't call in the doctor after the funeral.173.
Don't estimate the value of a badger skin before catching the badger.174.
Don't give your son's wife fall-harvest eggplant to eat.175.
Don't rejoice over him that goes, before you see him that comes.176.
Don't scratch your shoe when it's your foot that itches.177.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.178.
Don't take a golden sword to cut a radish.179.
Don't take seriously the cat who mourns for a mouse.180.
Don't tell others to do what you cannot do.