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Beat the iron while it is hot.
Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear. A chameleon does not leave one tree until he is sure of another. Visit rarely and you will be more loved. The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on. The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords. The lazy are not fed on honey. Call someone your lord and he'll send you in the slave market. Arrogance diminishes wisdom. Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do. Patience is beautiful. Account by the dinar, give charity by the assload. Outer beauty is no good, give me inner beauty. Eat your bread with water and don't ask for another's dough. Go softly, come softly, so that the cat does not gore you. The mosque's door is not shut to he who does not pray. A neighbor that is near is better than a relative of no benefit. Prosperity glitters and adversity shrivels. Blessed be the man who knows his power and abstains from doing evil to others. Though the camel go to Mecca forty years he does not become a pilgrim. He who has knowledge has power. Travel ripens a man. A single rose does not mean spring. Self-praise is like chewing cotton wool. The goat does not get fat just by whispering. Not every time a dog barks should a bone be thrown to it. The old fox does not fear the trap. The miser is like a donkey, he carries gold and silver and wants straw. With gentleness the fracture is repaired. If a lie saves, truth is a surer saviour. At the near end of the market, he told a lie; at the far end, he himself believed it. The crown of a good disposition is humility. Poverty and anger do not agree. A thousand regrets do not pay one debt. Truth is a lion, and lies are a hyena.
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