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A young tree bends, an old tree breaks.
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Even in Paradise, it is not good to be alone.
ID:208
Better ten small worries than one big worry.
ID:276
Not the cardplayer pays the penalty but only the man who knows not how to play, yet does.
ID:280
You don't put the cat in charge of the cream.
ID:304
Charm means more than beauty.
ID:319
Children grow up, parents grow old.
ID:330
Even the costliest clock
can show no more than sixty minutes to the hour.
ID:358
A contract is valid only for honest men.
ID:367
Money lost, nothing lost.
Courage lost, everything lost.
ID:437
Death does not knock at the door.
ID:438
Better an easy death than a hard life.
ID:444
I would rather the worst debtor were indebted to me than I to the best of creditors.
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No man dies before his time.
ID:485
If your time has not come,
even the doctor will not succeed in killing you.
ID:486
A man may die even without a doctor.
ID:577
A man may learn for seventy years and at the end die a fool.
ID:601
If a man is destined to drown,
he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
ID:673
No billy-goat is made a gardener.
ID:702
Better to get from God by the spoonful
than from Man by the bushel.
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A rich guest is a burden - - - he demands so much!
ID:761
Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he can do himself.
ID:802
The heart sees better than the eye.
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Where there is honey, there are flies.
ID:957
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one!