Beninese proverbs

Many words do not fill a basket.

A great affair covers up a small matter.

Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.

The young cannot teach tradition to the old.

Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.

The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.

Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.

Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.

There is no god like one's stomach; we must sacrifice to it every day.

Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.

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