Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

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.

Don't go looking for trouble.

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

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

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

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.