Meaning: A lion with a sore in its mouth doesn't eat prey

Context: Even the strong are weakened by pain — everyone has limits

Meaning: A lion isn't chased from two dens

Context: Don't provoke the powerful twice — wisdom avoids danger

Meaning: Only the ignorant bring down a lion

Context: Foolish boldness leads to ruin — ignorance breeds recklessness

Meaning: The one who speared the lion and the one who skinned it both know

Context: True witnesses know the truth — don't lie about what others saw

Meaning: At sixty, you can't regain what you missed at two

Context: Early growth shapes life — missed foundations can't be rebuilt

Meaning: A snake and a chicken can't be neighbors

Context: Enemies can't coexist — avoid impossible relationships

Meaning: You can't retreat from where your head has reached

Context: Once committed, you must continue — no turning back after action

Meaning: The place where a camel is slaughtered lacks neither talk nor meat

Context: Big events bring both wealth and gossip

Meaning: Words don't help where food is needed

Context: Practical help outweighs talk — action beats sympathy

Meaning: Stories don't heal wounds

Context: Entertainment can't fix real pain — solutions need action

Meaning: Leave the place where children and women know your shame

Context: Reputation matters — dignity requires change of environment

Meaning: Where the lion leaves, the jackal sits

Context: Weakness fills the void of strength — leadership is never empty

Meaning: Don't swing where you won't sleep

Context: Don't invest where you won't stay — choose wisely before acting

Meaning: The snake is killed from the head

Context: Problems must be solved at the source — leadership determines outcome

Meaning: Calamity is the teacher of the world

Context: Hardship teaches more than comfort — pain brings wisdom

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

Context: Learn from betrayal — wisdom comes from experience

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: As you break, so you are bandaged

Context: Remedy matches damage — consequences fit actions

Meaning: Both guests and corpses are bent

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

Meaning: Bow down so that you can sit in the house

Context: Humility earns a place — respect opens doors