A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught.
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
You have to put a young girl onto an old man.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.
A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.
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