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The greatest things are done by the help of small ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about help, things

With great men one must allow five to be an even number.

Proverbs and old sayings German about numbers, man

Don't learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment

Affectation is a greater injury to the face than small-pox.

Proverbs and old sayings German about face

We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves

He who saves in little things, can be liberal in great ones.

Proverbs and old sayings German about things

Drinking a little too much is drinking a great deal too much.

Proverbs and old sayings German about drinking

Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about ancestors

He that pelts every barking dog, must pick up a great many stones.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The world could have been great if only people had been more useful.

Proverbs and old sayings German about world, people

They who eat cherries with the great, are like to have the stones and stalks flung in their face.

Proverbs and old sayings German about face

Alexander the Great wasn't tall.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

A small evil may be a great good.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about good, good luck

Alexander the Great was not very tall.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about vice, pleasure

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, man, old, olderness

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about society, man, old, olderness

In the hour of your greatest success are sown the seeds of your own destruction.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about destruction, gypsies, success

The greatest wisdom of all is kindness.

Proverbs and old sayings about wisdom

He is great whose faults can be numbered.

Proverbs and old sayings