Beware of him who gives you advice according to his own interests.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
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If you do not honor your parents, your children will not honor you.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you don't aspire to great things, you won't attain small things.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Flee from sin as from a snake; if you go near it, it will bite you.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Poverty is no disgrace, but neither do you have to take pride in it.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you want to control your soul, hand it as a gift to your intellect.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If the dog barks, go in; if the bitch barks you had better stay outside.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you can't find peace within you, you'll labor in vain to find it elsewhere.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
With a good son-in-law you gain a son, with a bad one you lose your daughter, too.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If your son-in-law is good, you gained a son. if he is bad, you've lost a daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you receive pay, you cannot sit idle and if you sit idle, you cannot receive pay.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you see your friend's ox or sheep straying, don't look the other way; return them to your friend.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
A visit is like rainwater; you pray for it when it stays away and its a problem when it rains too much.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Humor is an important asset: it means understanding and self-criticism. where humor is absent, you'll find small-mindedness.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
If you do a person a favor, you'll be his superior; if he does one for you, his inferior; and if neither, you'll be his friend.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
You do not run into mountains, but people yes.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
I am king, you a king: who is to fetch the water?
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Dig your well before you are thirsty.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Bathe early every day and sickness will avoid you.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
