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Conscience is as a thousand witnesses.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about conscience

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about enemies, home, house

Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbours is of less consequence than the smallest of our own.

Proverbs and old sayings about consequences

A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can't.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about eyes, things

There are a thousand roads to every wrong.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about bad

It will be all one a thousand years hence.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A thousand friends are few; one enemy is too many.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about enemies

Ane will gar a thousand lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about lie

In war, hunting, and love you suffer a thousand pains for one pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about suffering, pleasure, war, love

A thousand assignations, one marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings about marriage

A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

One bee is better than a thousand flies.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you lose one, there are a thousand more to choose from.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

A narrow place can contain a thousand friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian

A small house is enough room for a thousand friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about home, house

Talk to a priest and die a thousand deaths.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

The thousand brilliant accomplishments of the past cannot serve today's purpose.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about purpose, past