99 Tibetan Proverbs / Page 2
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Don't praise my good fortune before I'm dead and buried.22.
Don't trust a hungry man to watch your rice.23.
Each lama has his own teaching.24.
Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.25.
Eating much of sweetness you do not know if it be sweet anymore.26.
Excellent people are honored wherever they go.27.
For so must it be, and help me do my part.28.
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.29.
Having drunk the country's water, one should obey the country's laws.30.
He who has had enough to eat thinks of serving God; the hungry think of stealing.31.
He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.32.
If I know I will die tomorrow, I can still learn something tonight.33.
If I tell you my dream, you might forget it. If I act on my dream, perhaps you will remember it, but if I involve you, it becomes your dream too.34.
If it is here, it is everywhere. If it is not here, it is nowhere.35.
If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it.36.
If the inner mind is not deluded, the outer actions will not be wrong.37.
If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.38.
If there is only one earring among seven daughters, there will always be a quarrel on festival days.39.
If you don't know where you are, any road will do.40.
If your inner mind isn't deceived, your outer actions won't be wrong.