“Do not put your trust in a bad companion not even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.”
“Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”
“Do not put your trust in a bad companion not even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.”
“We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like a hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a dear.”
“Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determines to carry it into execution.”
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto ant hills.
“We return evil for evil, in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a wicked man in his own coin.”