If you cannot be chaste, be cautious.

Better to lose a minute in your life than your life in a minute.

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.

Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced.

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted.

When your neighbor’s house is on fire, carry water to your own.

Sleeping people can’t fall down.

Whoever has a tail of straw should not get close to the fire.