Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.
Regularity is the best medicine.
Separation secures manifest friendship.
Since love departs at dawn, create, O God, a night that has no morn.
Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.
Smiles that you broadcast, will always come back to you.
Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done.
Stolen sugar is the sweetest.
That which blossoms must also decay.
The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.
The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.
The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.
The cock goes to town for only four days and returns home a peacock.
The crab instructs its young: "Walk straight ahead -- like me."
The crow was killed by the storm -- "He died by my curse," says the owl.
The deceitful have no friends.
The dog's tail stays crooked even if he is buried for twelve years.
The dog's tail, even if buried for twelve years, will remain as crooked as ever.
The enemy's own punishment is his envy.
The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
