Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.