Precious things are for those that can prize them.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
Gratitude and greed go not together.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Do not trust flatterers.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Clumsy jesting is no joke.
Little friends may prove great friends.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Better no rule than cruel rule.
Much outcry, little outcome.
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
No gratitude from the wicked.
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
One bad turn deserves another.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
We often despise what is most useful to us.
It is useless attacking the insensible.
Better starve free than be a fat slave.
Nothing escapes the master's eye.
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
Obscurity often brings safety.
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
Appearances are deceptive.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart
therefrom.
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Enemies promises were made to be broken.
Never soar aloft on an enemy's opinions.
Example is the best precept.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch.
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
United we stand, divided we fall.
A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect.
Vices are their own punishment.
Little by little does the trick.
Greed often over reaches itself.
Never believe a captive's promise.
Keep what you have.
Sorrow not over what is lost forever.
Cunning often outwits itself.
Kindness effects more than severity.
The gods help them that help themselves.
Please all, and you will please none.
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Distrust interested advice.
You cannot escape your fate.
It is easy to propose impossible remedies.
Plodding wins the race.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
He that has many friends, has no friends.
Love can tame the wildest.
Union gives strength.
It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Wit has always an answer ready.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Nature will out.
Better humble security than gilded danger.
Words may be deeds.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Even though one may be so-called qualified, if he is not trained in simple
etiquette's like closing doors, what is the use of his learning?
We must do everything nicely in service.
We have to preach according to time, place and circumstance.
Sometimes by maya and also the influence of the mind, we believe that we are worse
off than we actually are.
Simply by following the opinion of the masses doesn't mean that a thing is a fact.
Due to a poor fund of knowledge, people accept certain theories as truth, but never
stop to question why those theories exist. Don't follow blindly.
Cruel people look for faults in others and then create quarrels in order to kill.
One who has got intelligence, he has strength, and one who has no intelligence has
no strength.
Acts of charity should be performed in knowledge, not in ignorance, and to a worthy
person.
A man should not change his word of honour.
Money attracts money.
It doesn't matter what you do, people will always be critical.
Too much intelligence is dangerous sometimes, because it is used for thinking, "how
can I avoid labour?"
There are different ways of seeing things according to one's realization.
Philosophers may be speaking so much high philosophy, but then if they get
emotional or angry, sometimes their real motive comes out.
Mind your own business.
Choose your association wisely.
A little intelligence can save a lot of time.
Sometimes blessings come in a hidden form.
We can't even judge the most simple things with our imperfect senses.
If someone is cunning we must be more cunning.
If we can act nicely toward each other and behave nicely ourselves, then people
will become attracted.
Everyone looks to the leader; therefore he should be of exemplary character.