African

• A close friend can become a closer enemy.
• However long the night, the dawn will break.
• Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
• What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.

Arabic

• He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns a book is more of an idiot.
• Someone free will always play the judge.
  • That's a bad thing.
• The one on the shore is a master swimmer.

Biblical

• Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
• For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
• Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

Chinese

• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
• Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also.

Egyptian

• Dress up a stick and you'll get a doll.
• When the sad woman started to be happy, she could not find a place for her.
• A beautiful thing is never perfect.
• The mother of a monkey sees him as graceful as a deer.

English

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
• Familiarity breeds contempt.

French

• Catch not a shadow and lose the substance.
• Discretion is the better part of valor.
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• Write injuries in sand and kindness in marble.

Italian

• If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Japanese

• Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
• One kind word can warm three winter months.
• When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Latin

• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed are kings.
• To be successful is to be in solitude.

Swedish

• An accident rarely comes alone.
• Love me most when I least deserve it, for that is when I need it most.

Spanish

• Constant dropping wears the stone.
• Envy is the shadow of glory.

Swahili

• Patience attracts happiness. It brings near that which is far.
• To run is not necessarily to arrive.
• When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
• Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners.