Pursue your duties and don’t let them pursue you.
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If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.Japanese
If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog.
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As soon as a man leaves his house he has seven enemies.
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The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.
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If you hate a man, let him live.
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Silence makes irritation grow.
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