1118 Proverbs about Self / Page 26
501. 
A woman is like a blanket: If you cover yourself with it, it bothers you; if you throw it aside you will feel the cold.
502. 
Don't expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor.
503. 
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own.
504. 
Never consult a doctor who has never been ill himself.
505. 
No one loathes the smell of himself.
506. 
Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the smoke.
507. 
The style is the man himself.
508. 
A man without a woman cannot defend himself against seductions.
509. 
Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.
510. 
He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.
511. 
Physician, heal thyself.
512. 
Your health comes first -- you can always hang yourself later.
513. 
I can chew for you, my child, but you must swallow by yourself.
514. 
It would be good to have two mouths and speak to yourself with both.
515. 
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself.
516. 
A beggar himself, can he afford to have one asking for alms at his door?
517. 
A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail.
518. 
A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.
519. 
One man's house burns so that another may warm himself.
520. 
Only the hunchback himself knows how he can lie comfortably.
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