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A fool is only cured by dying.
(Japanese Proverb)
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
(Japanese Proverb)
An evil act runs a thousand miles.
(Japanese Proverb)
Breeding rather than birth.
(Japanese Proverb)
Count the skins of badgers which haven't been caught.
(Japanese Proverb)
Earthquakes, thunderbolts, fires, fathers.
(Japanese Proverb)
Even when our sleeves brush together it is our karma.
(Japanese Proverb)
Fortunes exist among leftovers.
(Japanese Proverb)
How can swallows and sparrows know the thoughts of a great swan?
(Japanese Proverb)
If you never climb Mt. Fuji, you're a fool, and if you climb it more than once, you're a crazy fool.
(Japanese Proverb)
It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.
(Japanese Proverb)
Like trying to put a comb upon the nun's head.
(Japanese Proverb)
Once you have made a fortune, know how to spend it.
(Japanese Proverb)
People want to avoid the dew before they become wet.
(Japanese Proverb)
Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths.
(Japanese Proverb)
The country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers.
(Japanese Proverb)
The more stupid the child the dearer it is.
(Japanese Proverb)
The splendor of the rose of sharon is but a day.
(Japanese Proverb)
To commit harakiri with a pestle.
(Japanese Proverb)
True patience consists in bearing what is unbearable.
(Japanese Proverb)
Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
(Japanese Proverb)
A frog in the well knows not the ocean.
(Japanese Proverb)
A smooth talker is a good-for-nothing person.
(Japanese Proverb)
Apply fitting ability in the fitting place.
(Japanese Proverb)
Brides and mothers-in-law are like dogs and monkeys.
(Japanese Proverb)
Cover the ears and steal the bell.
(Japanese Proverb)
Eggplants do not grow on melon vines.
(Japanese Proverb)
Every worm to his taste.
(Japanese Proverb)
From gods that are left alone, there is no curse.
(Japanese Proverb)
I have no friends; I make my mind my friend.
(Japanese Proverb)
If you respect others, others will respect you.
(Japanese Proverb)
It's better to not read at all than to believe everything you read. The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
(Japanese Proverb)
Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven, nor bowing down are we ashamed in the presence of earth.
(Japanese Proverb)
One cannot always find a fish under a willow.
(Japanese Proverb)
People with the same disease share sympathy.
(Japanese Proverb)
Some pray to the gods only when in trouble.
(Japanese Proverb)
The cow drinks water and it turns to milk; the snake drinks water and it turns to poison.
(Japanese Proverb)
The more you eat, the more you gain.
(Japanese Proverb)
The spot that makes the warrior benkei cry.
(Japanese Proverb)
To draw water into one's own rice field.
(Japanese Proverb)
Truth often comes out of a joke.
(Japanese Proverb)
Whether to go east or west depends on one's mind or feet.
(Japanese Proverb)
A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.
(Japanese Proverb)
A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses.
(Japanese Proverb)
As though a bird had flown up from under your feet.
(Japanese Proverb)
Business and folding screens must be crooked to stand.
(Japanese Proverb)
Cover your head, and not cover your bottom.
(Japanese Proverb)
Eggs and vows are easily broken.
(Japanese Proverb)
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
(Japanese Proverb)
From the mouths of babes and drunkards, you will learn the truth.
(Japanese Proverb)
I have no set principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle.
(Japanese Proverb)
If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed.
(Japanese Proverb)
It's easier to make it than to think about it.
(Japanese Proverb)
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
(Japanese Proverb)
One cannot become a priest just by having a rosary.
(Japanese Proverb)
Poke a bush, a snake comes out.
(Japanese Proverb)
Sparrows, though they live to be a hundred, do not forget their dance.
(Japanese Proverb)
The criticism of a blind man.
(Japanese Proverb)
The mouth is the cause of calamity.
(Japanese Proverb)
The strong will protect the weak and, in return, the weak will serve the strong.
(Japanese Proverb)
To gamble as the dice fall.
(Japanese Proverb)
Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
(Japanese Proverb)
While young, the tree can be easily bent.
(Japanese Proverb)
A bad wife is a poor harvest for sixty years.
(Japanese Proverb)
A full belly is not the stomach of a scholar.
(Japanese Proverb)
A sutra in a horse's ear.
(Japanese Proverb)
As to flowers, when half open; as to sake, when a person is half tipsy.
(Japanese Proverb)
Business is a two-way street.
(Japanese Proverb)
Crabs dig holes according to the size of their shells.
(Japanese Proverb)
Entering the village, obey the village.
(Japanese Proverb)
Fall seven times, rise eight.
(Japanese Proverb)
Good things, many devils.
(Japanese Proverb)
I have no sword; I make no mind my sword.
(Japanese Proverb)
If you wait, there will come nectar - like fair weather.
(Japanese Proverb)
It's hard to know the quality of a person, or a watermelon.
(Japanese Proverb)
Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages.
(Japanese Proverb)
One cannot quarrel without an opponent.
(Japanese Proverb)
Poor is the person who does not know when he has had enough. He who talks to a silent listener will soon stand naked.
(Japanese Proverb)
Speak well of others.
(Japanese Proverb)
The extreme form of passionate love is secret love.
(Japanese Proverb)
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