Believing is easier than investigating.
The first marriage is a plate of honey, the second a glass of wine, and the third is a cup of poison.
Better retreat in honor than advance in disgrace.
A good reputation is better than a golden girdle.
It is easy to advise the wise.
What is it to be a gentleman? Firstly it is to be thankful and secondly to complain.
Peace pays what war wins.
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man winning glory for himself.
A greedy father has thieves for children.
A clean pig makes lean bacon.
To serve our elders is a duty, our equals it is polite, but serving the young is humiliating.
Where there are no dogs the wolves will howl.
A thorn pierces young skin more quickly than old.
A tree near the road is easily cut down.
You are not being honest if you burn your tongue and don't tell everyone else that the soup is hot.
To set fire to a church is not so bad as to speak ill of a virgin.
Your ancestor's glory should not prevent you from winning your own.
It's better to blush once than to pale a hundred times.
It is easier to believe than to go and ask.
A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four.
Quick to believe is quickly deceived.
Even the devil knows what is right, but he will not do it.
It is better to make money in the straw market than to lose it in the money market.
We won the war, but we lost peace.
Time builds castles, and time destroys them.
You can judge what you make by what others make.
It is easy to tempt a frog to the river.
Good deeds are the best prayer.
Everyone is worth more than his neighbor and less than his son.
It does no harm now and then to burn a candle for the devil.
It is not at the table but in prison that you learn who your true friends are.
What makes you tired makes you stronger.
To believe is easier than investigation.
After a trial one party is naked and the other without a shirt.
Better to blush once than pale a hundred times.
Mother earth promised to tell her secrets to heaven.
If you humble yourself too much, you will get trampled on.
Warm bed, cold food.
There's nothing worse than a person looking for a quarrel.
The wound heals, the scar remains.
If you can't hold on to the horse's mane then don't try to hang on to its tail.
A man without enemies is worthless.
Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle.
A dead man pays no debts.
