To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

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

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

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.