Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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Last updated on December 4th, 2016

Keeping silence won’t get you to court.

Without pressing too little or too hard, hold tight the reins for he’s a fool who would not get value from a borrowed horse.

Your soul to god, your body to dust, your property to your relatives

There are twenty-five uncaught sparrows for a penny.

The fed hound never hunts.

A person who does not bathe, must know it of himself that he is dirty.

It is better to eat bread with love than fowl with grief.

If the metal is not good, you cannot take it out on the blacksmith.

By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you cannot see.

Sunshine all the time makes a desert.

Much would have more, and lost all.

A friend’s fault should be known but not abhorred.

First you are to think always of god.

Beware of “had I but known.”

The sin carries its own penance.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Talking of bulls is not the same as being in the bullring.

You are beautiful because of your possessions.