299 Indian Proverbs / Page 25
- 241. These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
 - 242. Those who hunt deer sometimes raise tigers.
- 243. Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.
- 244. To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.
- 245. To lend is to buy a quarrel.
- 246. To loan is to buy troubles.
- 247. To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
- 248. To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.
- 249. To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.
- 250. To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish.
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