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"A child should behave with modesty toward his mother. He should take the older generation into consideration."

"Let there be unused land adjacent to a house."

"He who destroys houses destroys silver. He who destroys a house destroys gold."

"He who shaves his head acquires ever more hair."

"For his pleasure he got married. On his thinking it over he got divorced."

"The good thing is to find it; the bad thing is to lose it."

"Their pleasure, their discomfort. Their discomfort, their pleasure."

"One should not remove what belongs to my mistress Inana."

"May the city build like me! May the Land live like me!"

"One does not marry a three-year-old wife, as a donkey does."

"Furrows are pleasant to a threshing ox."

"Once I had escaped the wild bull, the wild cow confronted me."

"Scowling dogs belong to the shameless man."

"A scribe who does not know how to grasp the meaning -- from where will he produce a translation?"

"A chattering scribe's guilt is great."

"The scribe trained in counting is deficient on clay. The scribe skilled with clay is deficient in counting."

"The fox lies even to Enlil."

"If a singer knows only one song but makes the sound pleasant, he is indeed a singer! [...] When a singer's voice is sweet, he is indeed a singer."

"The fox, having urinated into the sea, said: "The whole of the sea is my urine!""

"If a scribe knows only a single line but his handwriting is good, he is indeed a scribe!"

"What kind of a scribe is a scribe who does not know Sumerian?"

"Fate is a dog, well able to bite."

"Let me tell you about my fate: it is an insult. Let me explain it to you: it is a disgrace. Were I to tell my neighbour about my fate, he would heap insults upon me. I looked into the water. My destiny was drifting past. I was born on an ill-fated day."

"Fate is a raging storm blowing over the Land."

"You should not alienate their rituals! Where there are bonds, you should not destroy the place! You should not eradicate their place in the universe. You should not move the oxen from their places!"

"When I married a malicious husband, when I bore a malicious son, an unhappy heart was assigned to me."

"Tell a lie and then tell the truth: it will be considered a lie."

"I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum!"

"He who knows how to move around becomes strong. He will live longer than the sedentary man."

"Marry a wife according to your choice. Have children to your heart's content."

"A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the steppe."

"Girl, your brother cannot choose for you; whom do you choose? Girl, your brother is like me. A brother should let you live as would I."

"A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred."

"What comes out from the heart of the tree is known by the heart of the tree."

"Things may be traded in the city but it is the fisherman who brings in the food supply."

"He who does not support a wife, he who does not support a child, has no cause for celebration."

"He hurled his insult. He laid his curse. A curse which is reciprocated will be retaliated against with yet another curse. It is an insult resulting from an insult. It is a curse resulting from a curse. It is the constant renewal of destiny. To accept a verdict is possible. To accept a curse is impossible."

"Possessions are flying birds -- they never find a place to settle."

"Don't pick things now; they will bear fruit later."

"For a donkey there is no stench. For a donkey there is no washing with soap."

"The songs of a city are its diviners."

"Marrying is human. Having children is divine."

"Who can compete with righteousness? It creates life."

"You should not cut the throat of that which has already had its throat cut."

"What has submitted will exhibit resistance."

"Wealth is far away, poverty is close at hand."

"He who possesses many things is constantly on guard."

"Anyway, we may conceive of Marx without the labor theory of value should be abandoned. Does he abdicate or support what he calls "Fundamental Marxian theorem"? If he wants to support it, value concept is indispensable."

"The effectiveness of our democratic society depends on freedom of expression, and the expression of offensive and intolerant opinions is generally not unlawful. Boris Johnson's use of language in this instance, which risks dehumanising and vilifying Muslim women, is inflammatory and divisive. Political figures should lead by example, conducting debates in a responsible manner, and language such as this can inhibit legitimate dialogue."

"The world was absolutely wrong to think that Nazism was defeated in 1945. Nazism has won because it has finally managed to Nazify the consciousness of its own victims."