Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.
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
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.