Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.