Adages

If you forget to renew your views they may no longer apply to the present circumstances. If your virtue lacks resolve, even the wind will cause you to be led astrays.

Where will the wise flee to when fools overrun the commons? What will be said of the state if the mob turns to democracy?

There were many widows in the time of Elijah; why did he choose a foreigner?

Eat heartily of the food God gave you knowing not all accompany you.

One good mind is worth a nation of bad intentions and foolish thoughts.

A careless man leaves his implements of work where they fall at days end; in the night the dew will rust and the rustlers will walk with their self-justified due.

If you know a good man preserve him, though likely he can preserve himself, for a good man remembers the hand that will keep him from straying in a moment of weakness. Learn to forgive yourself the sins of your past but forget not the feeling of shame from your actions

Light at nighttime blinds the bearer and also attracts thieves but a lightened purse is preferable to a broken ankle especially in treacherous lands.