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

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

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

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

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

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

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