The tree that reaches the sky began from the tiniest seed
If you want rain, do not be upset with the mud.
Better a sad truth than a pleasant lie
Ignorance is the night of the mind.
Better to stumble with your big toe than to trip with your tongue
With shadow, there is light.
A beast's spots are on the outside, a man's on the inside.
Is the sharpening stone going to argue with the knife?
[Recorded among the Efé Pygmies of Zaïre's Ituri Forest by Jean-Pierre Hallet.]
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