You can only lean against that which resists.

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Even a cat is a liion in her own lair

If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak

Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness