10. When you are going in, first consider how you are coming out.
11. The ass knows seven ways of swimming, but when he sees the water he forgets them all.
12. A shrewd enemy is better than a stupid friend.
13. Because the cat could get no meat he said, "Today is Friday."
14. A goat prefers one goat to a whole herd of sheep.
15. A near neighbor is better than a distant kinsman.
16. When I have honey, the flies come even from Bagdad.
RATIONAL, WITH THE ACTORS GODS AND MEN
Jupiter and the Countryman
Jupiter, to reward the piety of a certain countryman, promised to give him whatever he would ask. The countryman desired that he might have the management of the weather in his own estate. He obtained his request, and immediately distributed rain, snow, and sunshine among his several fields as he thought the nature of the soil required. At the end of the year when he expected to see a more than ordinary crop, his harvest fell infinitely short of that of his neighbors. Thereupon he desired Jupiter to take the weather again into his own hands, for the countryman knew that otherwise he should utterly ruin himself.
—Spectator No. 25.