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

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

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

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.