List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, a small sacrifice may be necessary to solve a more pressing problem
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- you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
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- women should not rule over men, it is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock, a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men, when the hen crows, the house falls to ruin
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- having a companion makes the journey easier, travel is better with company
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- what is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb
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- looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
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- the truth always comes out, you can't sweep it under the rug forever, a secret is too heavy to hold, the king's ears are donkey's ears
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- one will inevitably suffer the consequences for interfering in a couple's relationship, may whoever interferes with another's love affair be kicked by a horse and die
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- looking gentle and beautiful like a bodhisattva on the outside but, being wicked and frightening like a demon on the inside
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- one dog barks at a shadow, and a hundred bark at the sound, it takes one person to start a rumor for the masses to tell it as the truth, gossip travels faster than the truth, when one dog barks at nothing, ten thousand dogs will pass it on as fact