What is so certain of victory as patience?
There is so little that one can do for the dead!
It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.
A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.
No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.