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One cannot count on riches.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves his own way for greatness. 
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.
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Make some money but don’t let money make you.
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There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast.
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Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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