If you cannot be chaste, be cautious.
If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.
If you live with wolves learn to howl.
If you want good service, serve yourself.
If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.
If you want to be respected, respect yourself.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some.
If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal.
If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt.
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
If you would live healthy, be old early.
If you would live in health, grow old early.
If youhave the moon, ignore the stars.
If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head.
If your roof is made of glass, don't throw stones at your neighbor's house.
If your wife tells you to throw yourself off a cliff, pray to God that it is a low one.
In a choice between bad company and loneliness -- the second is preferable.
In a soap maker's house, a person who doesn't fall, slips.
In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.
In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor.
