"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself."

“A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?”

“No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.”

“It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.”

“Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.”

“By this story it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”

“He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.”