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Show me your friend and I will show you your character.
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With wealth one wins a woman.
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Do not follow a person who is running away
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
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