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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Beware the anger of the dove.
[Fr., Craignez la colere de la colombe.]
Topic: Anger
Source: (French)
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
Topic: Behavior
Source: None
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God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
Topic: Betrayal
Source: None
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You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
Topic: Betrayal
Source: None
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A bad workman always blames his tools.
Topic: Blame
Source: None
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Borrowed garments never fit well.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: None
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Loans and debts make worry and frets.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: None
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: None
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Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
Topic: Charity
Source: (German)
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To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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Good men must die, but death can not kill their names.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.
Topic: Diplomacy
Source: None
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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
Topic: Eloquence
Source: None
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The end crowns all.
Topic: End
Source: (Dutch)
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By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.
[Fr., Par les memes voies on ne va pas toujours aux memes fins.]
Topic: End
Source: (Dutch)
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What can't be cured, must be endured.
Topic: Endurance
Source: None
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Topic: Eyes
Source: None
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What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Topic: Eyes
Source: None
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What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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The fool is always beginning to live.
Topic: Fools
Source: None
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Forbidden fruit is sweet.
Topic: Forbidden
Source: None
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The offender never forgives.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: (Russian)
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Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings
fast to the heel that crushed it.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: (Russian)
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Topic: Gifts
Source: None
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God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
Topic: God
Source: None
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Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
Topic: Greed
Source: None
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The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
Topic: Idleness
Source: None
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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Topic: Insanity
Source: None
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
Topic: Instinct
Source: (Irish)
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Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.
Topic: Killing
Source: None
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Better be a fool than a knave.
Topic: Knave
Source: None
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A wise teacher makes learning a joy.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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Love is a many splintered thing.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Love this Earth as if you won't be here tomorrow; show reverence for your Garden as if you will be here forever.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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The woman cries before he wedding, the man after.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Dog does not eat dog.
Topic: Loyalty
Source: None
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Benefits make a man a slave.
Topic: Materialism
Source: None
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A warm January; a cold May.
Topic: May
Source: (Welsh)
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He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
Topic: Medicine
Source: None
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Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
Topic: Medicine
Source: None
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
Topic: Merit
Source: None
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Crime never sleeps.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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