12 Beninese Proverbs
- 1. A great affair covers up a small matter.
 - 2. Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
- 3. Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
- 4. Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
- 5. Many words do not fill a basket.
- 6. Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
- 7. The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.
- 8. The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
- 9. There is no god like one's stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day.
- 10. What you give you get, ten times over.
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