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• if you can't beat them; join them; if your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side than to fight them - proverb

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• every person has their eccentricities - proverb

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• if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter; manjū in the toilet [literal] - proverb ➜ まんじゅう
• hiding something good for oneself alone - idiom

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• content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold - proverb ➜ 足るを知る

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• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

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• great men have eccentricities; fine horses have quirks - proverb

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• things cannot be larger than the things that contain them; there are no boars larger than the mountain [literal] - proverb

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• old soldiers never die; they just fade away - proverb

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• words betray one's character - proverb

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• he who knows, does not speak; he who speaks, does not know; those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know - proverb

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• don't eat plum pits (because they are poisonous); if you eat a plum, don't eat the kernel; inside it heavenly gods sleep [literal] - proverb

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• man is the measure of all things - proverb

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• a small leak will sink a great ship - proverb

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• a wise man keeps wide company; a fool joins a clique - proverb

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• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

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• birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb

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• good fences make good neighbors; a hedge between keeps friendship green - proverb

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• some are wise and some are otherwise; one thousand blind; one thousand with their eyes open [literal] - proverb - sensitive ➜ 目明き千人盲千人

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• great sinners make great saints (after repenting) - proverb

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• you can't rely on parents and money to stay around forever; money comes and goes; so do parents - proverb

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• you can never be too careful - proverb

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• the mediocre have no right to criticize the great - sensitive - proverb

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• don't hasten into action when you have doubts - proverb ➜ 善は急げ

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• you can't catch the wind with a net - proverb

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• something that has been joined together will eventually come apart; what may be joined may be separated - proverb