Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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Last updated on December 4th, 2016

You cannot cook one half of the chicken and leave the other lay eggs.

If you want no disappointments, don’t indulge in illusions.

The horse’s best allowance is his master’s eye.

One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the labor between them.

Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom.

After spring-tide, neap.

No matter how long a log may float in the water, it will never become a crocodile.

He that desires but little has no need of much.

Old friends and new reckonings.

Women’s tears are a fountain of craft.

To endure is obligatory, but to like is not.

Diligence is the beginning of brilliance.

It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear.

Life without battle is life without victory.

A hatchet in the mouth is more harmful than a hatchet in the hand.

He that is baldheaded has no need of combs.

Hannibal is at the gate.

When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved.