Meaning: As you break, so you're bandaged

Context: Help matches your wound — consequences fit actions

Meaning: When he comes, he brings news; when he leaves, he takes news

Context: Gossipers spread in all directions — guard your words around them

Meaning: The elephant doesn't see its own sore but notices another's

Context: People spot others' faults faster than their own — self-awareness is rare

Meaning: Guests and corpses are both bent

Context: A guest, like a corpse, must humble themselves — respect the home you visit

Meaning: The guest thinks she helped prepare the feast

Context: People often take credit for what others did for them — vanity blinds gratitude

Meaning: There's no guest smaller than the host, nor stay shorter than a day

Context: Every guest deserves dignity and time — respect is mutual

Meaning: The guests themselves become uneasy

Context: Overstaying brings discomfort — know when to leave

Meaning: At first the guests worry the hosts, later they worry themselves

Context: Hospitality becomes burden with time — long visits strain kindness

Meaning: The snake gives birth to a dragonfly, and the dragonfly to a snake

Context: Evil breeds evil — corruption reproduces itself

Meaning: Snake and chicken cannot be neighbors

Context: Natural enemies can't coexist — avoid impossible partnerships

Meaning: Calamity itself teaches the world

Context: Suffering is life's greatest teacher — hardship builds wisdom

Meaning: The snake is killed from the head

Context: Problems must be solved at the source — leadership correction fixes the whole

Meaning: Vomit doesn't leave you where it started

Context: Shame or guilt pushes one away — consequences follow wrongs

Meaning: What can it suck or be sucked with when it has neither lips nor breasts?

Context: Without the right means, no result can come — ability determines outcome

Meaning: If you deceive me once, God curse you; twice, I'm to blame

Context: Learn from betrayal — wisdom comes from experience

Meaning: As you break, so you are bandaged

Context: Remedy matches damage — consequences fit actions

Meaning: The elephant doesn't see its own sore but sees another's

Context: People notice others' faults before their own — self-awareness is rare

Meaning: Both guests and corpses are bent

Context: Guests, like the dead, must humble themselves — respect the house

Meaning: The guest thinks she helped in preparing the feast

Context: People often take credit for what's done for them — vanity is common

Meaning: No guest is smaller than the host, and no stay shorter than a day

Context: Hospitality demands generosity — guests deserve respect