Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Appearances may be deceiving.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both