One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats.
One eats, another watches; that's how revolutions are born.
One hour of justice is worth seventy hours of prayer.
One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.
One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity.
Others are always interested in us, just as we are interested in them.
Out of ten men there are nine wives.
Profit is the brother of loss.
Satan's friendship reaches the prison door.
Sighs never fall on the ground.
Silence is music to a wise man.
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood.
Tell a lie on Saturday and you will be ashamed on Sunday.
The account of the donkey is different from that of the donkey-man.
The baker's child goes hungry.
The bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey.
The bride who brings a golden throne will sit on it herself.
The cheese vessel will not sail merely by words.
The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.
The dog that is going to bite does not show its teeth.
The eagle does not feed on flies.
