Do not employ handsome servants.

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

There are always ears on the other side of the wall.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Of all the strategems, to know when to quit is the best.

Play a harp before a cow.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.

If you bow at all, bow low.