Famous Proverbs
476 Proverbs about Himself / Page 44
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If you show a rich man kindness, you gain nothing, but when you wrong him he avenges himself instantly.432.
When the poor man patches himself up, he seems newly dressed.433.
Who drinks at night, buys himself death, who drinks in bed, buys himself a coffin.434.
He thinks that he himself is the very stone that was hurled at the castle.435.
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.436.
He who handle pitch besmears himself.437.
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.438.
He who teaches often learns himself.439.
If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.440.
Happy is he who hath in himself praise and wisdom in life.