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“הרופא נותן לך עצה בהתאם לדופק של כיסך.”
“המידות הטובות מאצילות עלינו מזוהרן.”
“ציפורי כנף עפות יחדיו.”
“כל אדם הוא בנם של מעשיו.”
“עירום באתי לעולם הזה ועירום אני חייב לעוזבו.”
“במקום שבו קיימים חיים קיימת תקווה.”
“בין הכן ולא של אישה, יש מקום בקושי לסיכה.”
“רומא לא נבנתה ביום אחד.”
“כאשר דלת נסגרת, נפתחת אחרת.”
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”
“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
“No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”
“True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.”
“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.”
“From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”
“Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.”
“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”