If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.