Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.