Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.