515 Proverbs about Heir / Page 14
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Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.262.
He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues.263.
Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs.264.
Make your son you heir and not your steward.265.
When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light.266.
Old monkeys don't put their hand in jars.267.
Do good to people in order to enslave their hearts.268.
Literal meaning: The people's lord is their servant.269.
Similar to a bee: in their mouths they carry sweet honey, and in their tails poison.270.
People follow the religion/ ways of their kings.271.
O! my brother Flip the pot on its mouth, the daughters turn into their mums.272.
A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way.273.
The gratitude that bees receive is the smoke that people use to expel them and get at their honey.274.
The calves do not fear the horns of their mother.275.
Of runes they spoke, and the reading of runes was little withheld from their lips.276.
Less good than they say for the sons of men is the drinking oft of ale: for the more they drink, the less can they think and keep a watch o'er their wits.277.
The speech of a maiden should no man trust nor the words which a woman says; for their hearts were shaped on a whirling wheel and falsehood fixed in their breasts.278.
Men are blind in their own cause.279.
Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs.280.
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