- A lame man always speaks when it’s time to run.
- All fear has much imagination and little talent.
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
- Clean hands offend no one.
- Even the candle seller dies in the dark.
- He who overcomes his passions overcomes his greatest enemies.
- He who shows a passion tells his enemy where he may hit him.
- He, who gives away his belongings, slowly becomes a beggar.
- He, who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
- Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones.
- It’s better to be the pot than the lid.
- Poverty does not destroy virtue nor does wealth bestow it.
- See and believe, and in order not to make a mistake, touch.
- Suit the behavior to the occasion.
- Take the bull by the horns and the man at his word.
- The old dog barks while he is sitting down.
- The person who gives away his belongings will slowly become a beggar.
- The person who recognizes his major mistakes is on the road to wisdom.
- There is honor among thieves
- There is no better friend than a burden.
- To love and be wise is impossible.
- When force is imposed, the law is a joke.
- Where there are stones the brook babbles.
- Who is always sad, does not even have fun when drunk.
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