Don't carry logs into the forest.
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
I shall not completely die.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
Amiability shines by its own light.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.