Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.