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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
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The rich are always complaining.
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Knowledge is better than riches.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.
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