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Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.

Proverbs and old sayings Hasidic about conscience

When the wife is away, the husband is master of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband, wife, home, house

Till age six, your son is your master; until ten he's your servant; until sixteen, a wonderful adviser; from then on, he's either your friend or your enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings about age, olderness, enemies

Practice makes the master.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

One cannot serve two masters.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

The works praises its master.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A master's request is a command.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A mester is a master in hell as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about hell

The master's eye makes the animals fat.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about animals

Every cock is master upon his own dunghill.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A clever master turns even a loss into a gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about intelligence

Where there are many masters the servant becomes mad.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He that is not a master of something, is a butcher of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

God is the doctor of the man who quarrels with his master.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about god, man

It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

When money is not a servant it is a master.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about money

A good servant makes a good master.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck

Apelles was not a master painter the first day.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about day

Love is master of all arts.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about art, love

He who has a mate has a master.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian