When you are alone you are all your own.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.