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A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

A false tale often betrays itself.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

A man is known by the company he keeps

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Appearances are deceiving.

Appearances are deceptive.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Appearances may be deceiving.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

A word in season is most precious.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

Distrust interested advice.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Distrust unsolicited advice.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.