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Civility costs nothing means that politeness and kindness take little from you but give much.
That's not really a proverb. If you meant "the quiet person," then it's a person who doesn't speak much. If you meant "quite the person," then that's a person who is impressive or formidable in some way.
I believe that this means study much or little.
Not much.
In short, the proverb 'rain beats a leopard's skin but it does not wash out the spots' means that, no matter how much you try, you can't change a person/something.
It is a riddle, with the answer being money.
An Honest Criticism is much more useful than a false compliment.
This statement can be applied to physics, so it could be considered a 'physics proverb'... Work equals force times distance, so no matter how much force is applied, if the object does not move, no work is done.
The proverb you are probably referring to runs in English as "Eggs have no business dancing with stones." An obvious allusion to the dangers of mixing things and people of a more delicate nature with others which or who are much harder.
The Egyptians accomplished,pyramidsorganized governmentsolar calenderpaper made from papyrus plantheiroglyphics (one of the first written languages)They accomplished much more but I do not know them all!
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." - Bernadette Devlin "The only way to gain a kingdom is to win men's hearts." - Ethiopian Proverb "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Seneca