It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.