That which is exceptionally good is a forerunner of something bad.
The best morsels are never given to a beggar.
The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.
The calf is not afraid of the mother's horns.
The camel and his driver -- each has his own plan.
The child hates the one who gives him all he wants.
The dead are not seen in the company of the living.
The egg shows the hen where to hatch.
The eye envies, not the ear.
The fuel in the lamp consumes itself but lights others.
The hollow of the ear is never full.
The horse never refuses a homeward gallop.
The house of the heart is never full.
The key that opens is also the key that locks.
The knife that has been lent, never comes back alone.
The last partridge will take the most arrows.
The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.
The more intimate the friendship the deadlier the enmity.
The mouth which eats does not talk.
The plant God favors will grow even without rain.
The potter eats from broken plates.
