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.

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.