“If you give someone a finger he wants the whole hand.”

What matter if I suffer, if only my neighbor suffers too.

Being young is a fault which improves daily.

Quick wealth makes the man suspicious.

The eyes want more than the stomach.

A friend’s slap has honest intentions, your enemies’ kisses are meant to deceive.

If a blind one leads another, they both fall together.

The walls have ears.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things will be yours.

If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.

Injury makes you wise.

Better late than never.

In the realm of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

You cannot ask more of an ox than a steak.

It is easy to be prudent in hindsight.