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• A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds.

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• If you share a man’s wealth, try to lessen his misfortune.

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• Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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• One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.

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• From the lowly perspective of a dog’s eyes, everyone looks short.

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• Leave a bit of the tail to whisk off flies.

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• To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is as essential to all true conversation.

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• Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.

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• Wedlock is a padlock.

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• The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.

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• Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.

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• Kill a chicken before a monkey.

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• Kill one to warn a hundred.

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• The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.

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• Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man.

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• In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court.

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• An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer.

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• Despise learning and make everyone pay for your ignorance.

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• I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.

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• The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

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