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When people are no longer afraid of death, there is no use threatening them with it?

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about use, death, people

You can mirror something from other people; you can only give out that which is your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, contentment

The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about things, people, contentment

There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about perfection, people

When people only talk about things they understand then a great silence will descend upon the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about silence, world, things, people

Some people want to be praised for the rest of their lives for what they have done well for one day.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about rest, people, day

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

Ask no favors and people everywhere are affable; if you don't drink, it doesn't matter what price wine is.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drinking, wine, people, contentment

A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese about people

When the sun sets, lazy people prepare.

Proverbs and old sayings about sun, people

A language silenced is a people who die.

Proverbs and old sayings about language, death, people

To get to know people, you have to eat a full donkey's cargo of salt together.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

All people have their friend and their enemy within themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings about enemies, people

Sick people have no friends.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Bathe other people's children but don't wash behind their ears.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, people

As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about language, people

A bad hair cut is two people's shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about shame, people, bad luck, bad

Many people love to praise right and do wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, bad, rightness, people, love

More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people

Young people must be taught, old ones be honoured.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about people, old, olderness