Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
A kindness is never wasted
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.