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

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

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

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

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