Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.