Beninese Proverbs (20 Proverbs)
- The tortoise is friends with the snail: those with shells keep their shells close together.
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- The world is a journey, the afterworld is home.
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- We can only speak the truth when we turn off the light.
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- When the mouse laughs at the car, there is a hole nearby.
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- Fear a silent man
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- Anyone who plants a tree before they die has not lived in vain.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Blacksmiths and woodworkers will never suffer from poverty.
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- Every one has his place: the dead in the cemetery and the living at the table.
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- Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.
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- What you give you get, ten times over.
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- There is no god like one's stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day.
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- The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
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- The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.
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- Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
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- Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
(Beninese Proverb)
- Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
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- Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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- A great affair covers up a small matter.
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- Many words do not fill a basket.
(Beninese Proverb)
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