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All buildings that attract tourists in Athens are thousands of years old.
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It is better to tie your donkey than to look for it. It is better to do a small effort now and secure the situation than a big one later to correct it. Always guard your clothes so as to have half of them. One can never be too careful. The eyes you cannot see are easily forgotten. When you don't keep frequent contact with someone it is not easy to maintain a strong relationship. It is used for lovers or friends. He who's in a hurry stumbles and falls. Don't do things in haste. Acting quickly is a grace. Don't waste time. Put your ideas to action immediately. The skilled captain proves himself in a storm. Only in difficult times people prove their character. He drowns himself in a spoonful of water. He is not able to cope with even the simplest problems. He is a captain of sweet water. He claims to be skilled or able but he copes only with easy situations. The able lad knows another path as well. The able knows how to overcome obstacles in various ways. To beat someone originates in heaven. Sometimes using force or beeing strict to others is a good thing. She knows him since the time his fingernails were soft. She knows him since he was a child or a very long time. Between two a third cannot fit. There is no place for a third person in a relationship of two. Two donkeys were fighting over someone else's barn. Some people fight over something it is not their concern. You look for flees (or needles) in the straw. What you are looking for is difficult to find or you stick in minor details. The donkey called the ruster "bighead". We see the flaws of others but we don't realise we have them too, probably in a greater degree. He doesn't see the beam in his eye. He doesn't see his own flaws. He promises bunnies wearing stoles. He makes big promises. He promises to turn the seeweads into silk ribbons. He is promising things he cannot deliver. (especially suitable for politicians:) ) Everything in its own time and the mackerel in August. Everything has its own time. The legs rose to hit the head. Some people are ungreatful or they don't recognise their position. The fox is 100 years old and the foxcub 104. It is used for someone that proves to be smarter or or more effective than someone else who is thought to be better. Even if there is bad weather in February there is the smell of summer around. After February the summer is near. The weather is going to be beautiful soon. March can skin you and burn all the logs you have stocked for winter. March is a spring month but it can show a very ugly face. When we were talking the donkey appeared. We were talking about him when he arrived. She is like cool sprinwater. She is very beautiful. One has the name and another the grace. Sometimes people have the reputation but it is others that deserve it. It is better to loose an eye than to create a certain reputation. The monk entered the pot. The food is burned. Fire, woman and sea. The three most dangerous things in this world. Be too kind to the villager and he will climb on your bed. When you are too compromising with people who cannot appreciate it soon they will try to take advantage of it. The eyes eat the fishes and the stomach takes a hick. It is used when someone is admiring something from far away or craving for something he cannot have. He went to get some hair and he ended up with no hair at all. He was persuing a situation that came out badly for him. He who wants too much looses even the few. One should not be too greedy. It is better to have five in your pocket than ten in the future. It is not wise to sucrifice certain small present profits for doubtfull larger future ones. He hit two turtle-doves with one shot. > He took the most out of the situation. The wolf doesn't change his pelt even if he gets old. Some people never change. He enters the mouth of the wolf. He puts himself in unnecessary danger. When the cat is away the mouses dance. When people can take advantage of a situation they will. A stupid child is filled with joy. Only the stupid can be satisfied all the time. You hear the truth only from a child or from a crazy man. Whenever there is a wedding or a feast Vasilo is first to go. It is used for people that don't miss the opportunity to attend a party or for people that try to be present in all happy occassions but they avoid the unpleasant ones. The liar and the thief enjoy only the first year. Eventually all bad deads are panished. God loves the thief but he loves the owner of the house too. Sometimes luck is on the side of the one who is right. Have a shoe from your country even if it has a hole on it. A thing or a person that is familiar is better than the one you don't know or you are not accustomed to. Sometimes it might mean stick to the things you know. Among the blind the one-eyed is like a hawk. He does it better than everyone else not because he is good but because the others are worse. With the help of goddess Athena, move your hands as well. If you don't try to help yourself the Gods cannot help you. Come and take them. It is the historical phrase of Leonidas in Thermopyles addressed to the herald of the Persians that proposed the Greeks to surrender and give their weapons since the Persian army was far too numerous than the Greek. It is used in situations where one is not ready to give up. With them or on them. It is what Spartan women used to say to male members of their family before they leave for the battle field and while they were handing them their shields. In Sparta warriors killed honourably in the battlefield were carried back home on their shields as a sign of respect. Living ones were returning with their shields. The ones that had lost their shield were considered cowards because they were thought to have droped it in order to be able to run away from the battle. It is used in situations where one is ready to fight to the end. He had even the bird's milk. He had all imaginable goods. Whenever you hear there are lots of cherries hold a small basket. Rumours tend to be mostly untrue. There is no smoke without a fire. Rumours have a core of truth in them. In the house of the person that hunged itself one should not mention a rope. One should not mention things that are not in his interest or are against him. He caught a seawolf. He discovered something very valuable or important. He descovered an important secret, the truth. He throws empty to catch full. He opens a general converstation with the hope to learn something from it. Kiss the hand you cannot bite. Don't make powerful enemies. Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. Always keep an eye on your enemies. Good arrangements make good friends. One should treat his friends fairly. Friendships can deteriorate due to small things. When you are wet you do not worry about the rain. When you have big problems you cannot worry about the small ones. The least bad is better. He put the snake in his shirt. Don't be good to people that are dangerous or have been bad to you. Do a good dead and then throw it in the sea. Do something nice and then forget about it. Don't worry if noone recognise it. One hand washes the other and both of them the face. Some things can be done only through cooperation. Say hallo to the platan on my behalf and on the mountain top there is some cinnamon. It is used when people cannot communicate or when one is persuing something that seems impossible. The need is the mother of all skills. When you are in real need you will learn how to cope. Be in need and the Gods will help. Don't complain about something that has not happened yet. Don't complain that others don't help you when you are not yet in need of their help. Hit me but listen to me. Listen event the things you don't like to hear about. Too many words are poverty. Don't talk when you can act. Honour doesn't have a price. Reputation is the most important think. Being clean is half of what it means to be noble. What's wrong with you John, what was always wrong with me. It is used for people that keep doing the same mistake over and over again. He allowed the wolf to guard the sheeps. He trusts the wrong person. When you don't eat a pie why do you care if it will burn. Don't mess with things that are not your business. He who throws himself into the brans gets eaten by the hens. When you enter a situation expect the consequences as well. There is no evil that doesn't bring something good at the end. Bad experiences eventually can be beneficial. He who doesn't want to knead sifts the flour for ten days. When someone doesn't want to do something he finds all sort of excuses to delay it. The water pot goes to the spring many times but it won't come back only once. It takes only once for something bad to happen even when nothing has happened until today. The hour can bring more than a whole year. It takes only a minute for something bad to happen. Gathered by the wind, gone with the wind. Easy comes, easy goes. He puts his nose everywhere. He wants to know what is not his business. A bad dog dies hard. Bad people live long or they survive situations easier. A dog that barks never bites. Don't be afraid of people that make lots of noise. A good person is never treated with goodness. People will take advantage of your kindness. I burn John then I apply oil on his wounds. It is used when people treat someone badly and then try to ease the impressions. The toung has no bone but it can brake bones. Words can cause great pain. He was given a horse and he was checking its teath. He is ungrateful. It was the drop that made the water to spill out of the glass. That was the thing that made him loose his patience. He who has the beard has the comp as well. ?he person that has the responsibilities is the one with the priveledges as well. Whoever has the knife cuts the melon. The one in power makes the rules. Wearing gowns doesn't make you a priest. Appearance is not what matters.
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