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“Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.”
“It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.”
“It is not every question that deserves an answer.”
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
“There are some remedies worse than the disease.”
“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”
“We die as often as we lose a friend.”
“The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.”
“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”
“A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.”
“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”
“You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.”
“טובה שנעשית ללא בקשה מוערכת כפליים.”
“האיש הנדיב יוצר הזדמנויות לעשות טוב.”
“אם אתה לא רוצה לכעוס על מישהו לעתים קרובות, כעס אחת ולתמיד.”
“מי שתמיד חי בפחד נענש כל יום.”
“האישה או אוהבת או שונאת: היא לא יודעת דרך ביניים.”
“אחר ביש גד הולך החשד.”