Every tale can be told in a different way.
Fire does not extinguish fire.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
For lazy people it is always party time.
From a broken violin do not expect fine music.
Give me today and you may keep tomorrow.
Good accounts make good friends.
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Greeks only agree with each other about going to the toilet.
He who eats and drinks with the rich leaves the table hungry.
He who is born in jail loves jail.
He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror.
He who thinks the worst usually is right.
He who wants to be happy must stay at home.
I hate a jovial table companion with a good memory.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
If all the bees made honey, there would be enough for even gypsies to eat.
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
If the ox knew his own strength, God help us.
If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea.