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+A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth. (Tagalog)
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+No sin is hidden to the soul. (Bengali)
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+Conscience cannot be compelled. (English)
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+The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail. (Russian)
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+A clear conscience shines not only in the eyes. (Lebanese)
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+Old sin makes new shame. (English)
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+Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses. (Italian)
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+A good conscience is beter than a big wage. (Jamaican)
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+To ask is a temporary shame; not to ask, an eternal one. (Japanese)
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+A virtuous person sleeps well. (Thai)
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+The greatest tranquility is when we desire nothing. (Middle Eastern)
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+A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment. (Kashmiri)
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+If they had cereal, they'd want gumbo. (Haitian)
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+Blessed are those who can please themselves. (Zulu)
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+When you can't find peace within yourself, it's useless to seek it elsewhere. (French)
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+Jupiter himself cannot please everyone. (Latin)
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+The person who lives in a quiet house has plenty. (Maori)
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+Where the heart is, there is happiness. (Iranian)
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+The contented person can never be ruined. (Chinese)
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+The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. (Yiddish)
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+If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you. (Moroccan)
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+Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. (Norwegian)
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+Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish)
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+The brave person regards dying as going home. (Chinese)
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+If you fear God, you won't fear humans. (Albanian)
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+Our fears always outnumber our dangers. (Latin)
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+One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the person ready to die. (Italian)
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+Fear the person who fears you. (Middle Eastern)
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+There's no medicine for fear. (Scottish)
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+The blind person is not afraid of ghosts. (Burmese)
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+No strength within, no respect without. (Kashmiric)
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+Many meet the gods, but few salute them. (Latin)
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+If you owe a dog anything, call him "sir." (East Asian)
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+Excellent people are honored wherever they go. (Tibetan)
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+Never spend time with people who don't respect you. (Maori)
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+When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears. (Jamaican)
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+Kind words conquer. (Tamil)
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+Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another's ears. (Vietnamese)
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+Too much politeness conceals deceit. (Chinese)
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+To speak ill of anyone is to speak ill of yourself. (Afghan)
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+The bad plowman quarrels with his ox. (Korean)
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+The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. (Vietnamese)
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+Worthless people blame their karma. (Burmese)
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+Don't call the alligator big-mouth till you have crosed the river. (Belizean)
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+Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (English)
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+Cussing the weather is mighty poor farming. (African-American)
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+The rattan basket criticizes the palm-leafed bag, yet both are full of holes. (Filipino)
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+The breath of others always stinks. (Lithuanian)
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+Those who can't dance say the music is no good. (Jamaican)
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+It is easier to criticize than to do better. (Swiss)
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+The good dog never gets a good bone. (Martinican)
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+There is never trust without loss. (Basque)
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+Remember to distrust. (Greek)
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+There are a thousand roads to every wrong. (Polish)
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+The hero appears only when the tiger is dead. (Burmese)
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+Don't be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail. (Russian)
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+Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves. (English)
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+You go out for wool but come back shorn. (Peruvian)
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+Good guys finish last. (English)
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+The good white man dies, the bad one remains. (Haitian)
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+Death is a black camel that kneels at everyone's gate. (Turkish)
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+The white flower has bloomed — it is time to go to sleep outside. (Fijian)
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+Death does not take the old but the ripe. (Russian)
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+The bucket goes down in the well every day - some day it won't come up. (Virgin Islander)
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+Six feet of earth make us all equal. (Italian)
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+There is no dying by proxy. (French)
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+Dying while young is a boon in old age. (Yiddish)
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+A person has learned much who has learned how to die. (German)
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+Death keeps no calendar. (English)
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+People live like birds in a wood: When the time comes, each takes flight. (Chinese)
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+The fated thing will happen. (Gaelic)
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+Individuals must stand high who would see their own destiny. (Danish)
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+Tie your camel, then trust in Allah. (Arabic)
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+If you're fated to drown, you may die in a teaspoon of water. (Yiddish)
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+Karma is the mother and karma the father. (Burmese)
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+A person born to be a flower pot wil not go beyond the porch. (Mexican)
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+You can't flee your lot nor share it with another. (Afghan)
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+As individuals go their own way, destiny accompanies them. (Tamil)
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+You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. (French)
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+Even the stone you trip on is part of your fate. (Japanese)
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+Even a sheet of paper has two sides. (Japanese)
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+The lion believes that everyone shares its state of mind. (Mexican)
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+People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses. (Vietnamese)
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+Every head is a world. (Cuban)
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+Different sores have different salves. (English)
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+Every burro has its own saddle. (Ecuadorian)
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+Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish. (Indonesian)
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+Even children of the same mother look different. (Korean)
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+Each bay, its own wind. (Fijian)
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+One person can burn water, while another can't even burn oil. (Kashmiri)
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+Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak. (Turkish)
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+Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence. (English)
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+Stones decay; words last. (Samoan)
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+All food is fit to eat, but not all words are fit to speak. (Haitian)
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+Words should be weighed, not counted. (Yiddish)
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+Silence is sometimes the answer. (Estonian)
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+When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot. (Oji)
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+Forethought is easy, repentance hard. (Chinese)
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+There is nothing that can't be made worse by telling. (Latin)
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+The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones. (Greek)
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		A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth. (Tagalog)
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		The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail. (Russian)
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		A clear conscience shines not only in the eyes. (Lebanese)
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		Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses. (Italian)
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		A good conscience is beter than a big wage. (Jamaican)
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		To ask is a temporary shame; not to ask, an eternal one. (Japanese)
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		The greatest tranquility is when we desire nothing. (Middle Eastern)
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		A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment. (Kashmiri)
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		If they had cereal, they'd want gumbo. (Haitian)
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		Blessed are those who can please themselves. (Zulu)