Better poverty without care, than riches with..

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 on….

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings..

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves..

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed..

Necessity knows no law..

Appearances often are deceiving..

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty..

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

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same….

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour..

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time..

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction..

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

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family..

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office..

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents..

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes..

Kindness effects more than severity..

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny..