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Beware of he whose goodness you can't ask for for and whose evil you can't be protected from.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more evil.
Proverbs and old sayings about enemies
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
Proverbs and old sayings British about good, good luck, man
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day, good, good luck
There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.
Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck
How many daily read the Bible, and yet pursue their course of evil.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Where there's money, there is the devil; but where there's none, a greater evil.
Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, money
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about value, hunger, rest, food, good, good luck
To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.
Proverbs and old sayings about bad, law, things
In my life of vanity i saw everything: a righteous man dying in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long after his evil deeds.
Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, proudness, vanity, deeds, life, man
My enemy isn't the one who harms me, but the one who makes me evil.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about enemies
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about generosity, truth, man
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a slumbering evil rest where it is. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about rest, man
It is soon known which trees will bear fruit. [A natural bent for good or evil is easily perceptible in youth. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about youth, good, good luck
There is only one good - knowledge; there is only one evil - ignorance.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about ignorance, knowledge, good, good luck
