If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
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A half-truth is a whole lie.
If you can't go over, you must go under.
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Other people's troubles are bearable.
If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.
True poverty does not come from God.
A child's tear rends the heavens.
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
Don't spit into the well - you might drink from it later.
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.
To a worm in a horseradish; the whole world is a horseradish.
Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself.
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