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One must behave before men as one must before God.
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Your elder brother should be respected like your father.
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A man who does not want to buy should not say to a vendor: 'How much does this thing cost?'
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A man should not drink from a glass and then give it to another.
ID:533
Talk not while you eat, lest windpipe anticipate gullet (and life be in danger)!
ID:614
If you do a man a favor,
do not regard it as a debt he must repay!
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Do not offer your food to one who has no appetite for it!
ID:688
Who welcomes his friend with a smile
is as one giving him the finest gifts in the world.
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A man without grace is as a tale out of season.
ID:729
Who eats even plain bread and salt with his friend
should be grateful to him.
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If a great man said it, do not laugh at it!
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Be first in greeting every man!
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Greet all men with a smiling face!
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Insulting one's senior is not the same
as insulting one's junior.
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Interrupt not the speech of your friend before he finish!
ID:1089
My son, answer not before you hear,
nor speak in the midst of converse!
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It is follly to listen at the door,
and the clever man regards this as a very shameful thing.
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The junior may not sit down until the senior says:
Be seated!
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Good manners mean more than learning.
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Who wishes to be friendly with people
should cling to good manners.
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Do not be joyful almong the mourners!
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Who guards his mouth preserves his life.
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Never enter a neighbor's house unwarned.
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You shall rise before the aged
and show deference to the old.
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Shame not the old: we shall all be numbered among them.