Boldness drinks mead and chafes fetters.
A bad peace is better than a good quarrel.
If the thunder rolls not, the muzhík will not cross himself.
Don’t beat the muzhík with a cudgel, but beat him with a rouble.
To rotten wares the seller is blind.
A snipe is small, but, for all that, a bird.
Fear not the threats of the rich but the tears of the poor.
Drink at table, not behind a pillar.
Who can withstand God and Nóvgorod the Great?
Where there is an oath, there is also a crime.