When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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