If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Love can tame the wildest.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.