12 Beninese Proverbs
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A great affair covers up a small matter.2.
Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.3.
Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.4.
Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.5.
Many words do not fill a basket.6.
Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.7.
The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.8.
The young cannot teach tradition to the old.9.
There is no god like one's stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day.10.
What you give you get, ten times over.11.
Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.12.
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.12 Beninese Proverbs