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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right
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Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
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He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
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A friend is someone you share the path with.
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If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success.
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They ate our food, and forgot our names.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
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One must talk little and listen much. 
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