proverbs

If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.

Opportunities come but do not linger.

If there is no wind, row.

- Latin proverb

Not your friend but your enemy will tell you who you are.

-- Greek proverb

To listen to a lie is harder than to tell it.

-- Turkish proverb

Many have suffered for talking; none ever suffered for keeping silent.

-- Italian proverb

If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.

-- Russian proverb

See that you are wise, but also learn to appear ignorant.

-- Armenian proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.

— Chinese proverb.