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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

As he thinks in his heart, so he is.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Loneliness breaks the spirit.

If not for fear, sin would be sweet.

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Do not ask questions of fairy tales.

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

As you teach, you learn.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.