Masai Proverbs
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Daylight follows a dark night.
Do not allow the belly to make you useless.
Do not go gathering fruit when a dance is taking place.
Do not jump about, for there is no use in jumping about.
Do not repair another man's fence until you have seen to your own.
Do not show the hawk your bow, or he will fly away.
Do not sweep someone else's home while yours is dirty.
Do not talk a great deal.
Don't fight a lion with a stick.
Don't go to the plain without somebody to take the dust out of your eye.
Don't make a cloth for carrying a child in before the child is born.
Don't reply one wrong with another.
Don't tread on the post, i.e. don't be proud, like the father of many sons.
Even the ostrich, with its long neck and sharp eyes, cannot see what will happen in the future.
Events follow one another like days.
Everything has an end.
Facing backwards does not perform itself.
Flies have ears.
Foolishness first, then wisdom.
Friendship likes distance.
God, shield me with your wings.
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