Odam olasi ichida, mol olasi tashida.
“A person's blemish is hidden within; an animal's marking shows on the outside.”
A person's true character and faults are hidden inside and revealed only through their deeds, unlike an animal whose markings are visible outwardly — judge people by their inner nature, not appearances.
— Traditional Uzbekistan Wisdom, Uzbekistan
Source: Traditional Uzbek proverb, public-domain oral tradition; a later form of a line recorded by 11th-century scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari in "Devon-u Lug'ot-it Turk" ("Kishi olasi ichtin, qilqi olasi tashtin")
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