Famous Proverbs
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Those who sacrifice their conscience to ambition burn a painting to obtain ashes.342.
Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success.343.
When the brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate.344.
What people get by hard work they don't get for their neighbors.345.
Two may become enemies, when their ideas are the same.346.
The feeling of commiseration is the feeling of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs.347.
A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way.348.
A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors or how strong their weapons.349.
Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.350.
The tortoise is friends with the snail: those with shells keep their shells close together.