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Remove the stone and you won't stumble.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.

Proverbs and old sayings about night

The land where the stones know you is worth more than the land where the people know you.

Proverbs and old sayings Berber about people, contentment

Three hundred ravens are scattered by one stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

Man is harder than a stone and more brittle than an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about man

A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about word

Hit a stone with an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Swallow a date with its stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

O eggs, never fight with stones!

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fight

Dripping water can eat through a stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

Don't waste too many stones on one bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about waste

Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Turn iron (or stone) into gold by the touch.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man

A speck on a jade stone won't obscure its radiance.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about commerce, contentment

A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone with none.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about common sense

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about perfection, common sense

To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about nothing, good, good luck, man