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 grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.