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Science is a couch for the wise; reclining on it they feel no fatigue.

A man of feeble character is like a reed shaken by the wind.

Wealth without liberality is like riches still buried in the earth.

The washerman beats the cloth to remove the stains: a teacher chastises to make his pupil good.

A crocodile in water can destroy an elephant; out of the stream it is overcome by a dog.

Bust makes iron soft; the soul is softened by grief.

The friendship of the bad is like the shadow of a precipitous bank, ready to crush him who sits beneath.

Where frogs are the croakers, their silence is becoming.