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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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Having a good discussion is like having riches.
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He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
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Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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The rich are always complaining.
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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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 fool speaks, the wise man listens.
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