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Will white ashes remove the smell of the wine-pot? Will a cord put on the neck make one twice-born?

The eyeball is large; the pupil, through which we see, is small.

A small deed honestly performed is a work of great merit: a small seed may grow into an extensive banyan tree.

A scorpion's poison is in its tail, a fly's in its head; the poison of a snake is in its fangs; a bad man is poisonous altogether.

The philosopher's stone in a fool's hand would vanish as fast as hailstones that come with the rain.

What use of an eloquent man where there are no hearers? What use of a washerman in a country of naked beggars?

Act in time: wait not to repair the tank after the water has escaped.

As gems on a string, so on God is the whole universe woven.