The lion of the jungle seizes his prey by night. The lion of the city by day; one is stripped to the bone, the other to the shirt.
Birds are charmed by snakes, women by beasts in human form. The glitter of the eye subdues the one, the glitter of gold, the other.
Over the grave of each child which dies in the slums should stand a tablet inscribed, "Died for want of sunlight and pure air." "Who stole the land?"
One tyrant dies that two may be born.
A wise man prefers virgin soil to a cultivated widow.