If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue, [256]
If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron, [239]
If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure, [257]
If you want to know what a ducat (or dollar) is worth, try to borrow one, [257], [294]
If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun, [257] (i.e. to find fault with its impurity)
If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell, [379]
If you wish to be well served, serve yourself, [257], [294]
If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says, [294]
If you would be healthy, be wise betimes, [294]
If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese, [392]