Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.