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You can easily find a thousand teachers, but it is difficult to find a true disciple.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about teachers

Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about essential, conversation, talking

To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is as essential to all true conversation.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about essential, influence, conversation

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about writing, pleasure, name, wealth, heart, old, olderness, good, good luck

Piety, prudence, wit, and civility, are the elements of true nobility.

Proverbs and old sayings German about prudence

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverbs and old sayings about being, self-control, nothing, man

A servant serves a king, he serves the king well; a servant serves two kings, he is true to one.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

The ones that matter most are the children. they are the true human beings.

Proverbs and old sayings about human imperfections, children

While the winner has lots of friends, the loser has only true friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian

There can never be peace between nations until it is first known that true peace is within the souls of men.

Proverbs and old sayings about nation, peace, man, americans

Speak truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man.

Proverbs and old sayings about humility, truth, people, americans, man

It is not at the table but in prison that you learn who your true friends are.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

The horns of the sister are horns of gold; the horns of the wife are true horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife

While you still have bread, troubles are not troubles, true troubles are without bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Love, everyone says it's bitter, but everyone wants to see for themselves if it's true.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bitter, love
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