130 Malagasy Proverbs / Page 11
- 101. The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.
 - 102. The food which is prepared has no master.
- 103. The king inherits a country -- the people only hard work.
- 104. The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one."
- 105. The sin for which you repent is the father of virtue; but a virtue that you talk about, is the mother of sin.
- 106. They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar.
- 107. Those who know how to swim are the ones who sink.
- 108. Those who rush things too much, without reflection, can be surpassed by those who take their time.
- 109. To deny God's existence is like jumping with your eyes closed.
- 110. To love the law is to lose money.
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