2049 African Proverbs / Page 22
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.422.
Beware of time because it has the answers.423.
Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.424.
Blessings of ancestors are greater than those of a living human being.425.
Bones and flesh of the martyrs lie buried in earth, but their revolutionary spirit and single-hearted fidelity remain alive.426.
Book stands by itself and experience stands by itself.427.
Born by the fire and die by the fire.428.
Breaking news of the dead in the right way is very important.429.
Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.430.
Buy the truth but never sell it.431.
By coming and going, a bird constructs its nest.432.
By his deeds we know a man.433.
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.434.
By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you cannot see.435.
Call a cat a cat.436.
Call kinship with the hyena, and all hyenas are your friend.437.
Children are the reward of life.438.
Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice.439.
Cleverness is better than strength.440.
Clothes make the man.