A person who is full tramples on a honeycomb,
but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet.
Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
A sensible person sees danger and takes cover;
the inexperienced keep going and are punished.
If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and whoever looks after his master will be honored.
As a crucible refines silver,
and a smelter refines gold,
so a person should refine his praise.
Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
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