Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.