Whoever has not tasted sinfulness does not qualify for holiness.
Proverbs and old sayings
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A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.
Proverbs and old sayings about knowledge, life
Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.
Proverbs and old sayings
Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.
Proverbs and old sayings about knowledge, advice
Don't be quick to get angry; rage is found in the bosom of fools.
Proverbs and old sayings
The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
The world is sustained by three things: justice, truth and peace.
Proverbs and old sayings about justice, peace, truth, world, things
A secret is between two; when a third is involved, it's no secret.
Proverbs and old sayings about secret
If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.
Proverbs and old sayings
If two men claim your help, and one is your enemy, help him first.
Proverbs and old sayings about help, enemies, man
By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion, and the third a pig.
Proverbs and old sayings
Beware of him who gives you advice according to his own interests.
Proverbs and old sayings about advice
There's no rain without thunder, and no children born without pain.
Proverbs and old sayings about pain, rain, children
Even when a sharp sword rests on your neck, don't give up on mercy.
Proverbs and old sayings about mercy
Fire dies for lack of wood; if there's no whispering, gossip stops.
Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
Proverbs and old sayings about poverty, death, nothing
If you do not honor your parents, your children will not honor you.
Proverbs and old sayings about parents, children
If you don't aspire to great things, you won't attain small things.
Proverbs and old sayings about things
Till age forty it is better to eat. after that, drinking is better.
Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, age, olderness
Flee from sin as from a snake; if you go near it, it will bite you.
Proverbs and old sayings about sin
