Distrust unsolicited advice.

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

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

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.