Meaning: When one endures the dry season, the body doesn't need endurance

Context: If you survive the hardest time, smaller challenges are easy

Meaning: Where running exists, falling does too

Context: Risk accompanies effort — progress comes with failure

Meaning: A door isn't closed by words but by a bar

Context: Action secures what speech cannot — deeds over words

Meaning: Your eye is your teacher

Context: Experience teaches best — observation brings knowledge

Meaning: Your eyes are your peers, but your ears are older than you

Context: Seeing gives facts, but listening gives wisdom — elders teach more

Meaning: He's known by his look and beaten with his stick

Context: People reveal themselves through expression — appearance exposes character

Meaning: The proud one is like a big rooster

Context: Arrogance is loud but empty — pride parades itself

Meaning: She doesn't check herself but celebrates her wedding day

Context: The careless rejoice too soon — self-awareness prevents shame

Meaning: Without realizing, she's cursing her own home

Context: Some harm themselves unknowingly — ignorance breeds self-destruction

Meaning: Married to oneself without being married by others

Context: Acting self-sufficiently without social recognition — independence or arrogance, depending on tone

Meaning: Love isn't cut by iron

Context: True love endures all hardships — emotion overcomes force

Meaning: Love can't be cut by iron nor washed off by water

Context: Deep affection can't be erased — genuine love is permanent

Meaning: A foreign body is a foreign land

Context: You're never fully comfortable in what's not your own — familiarity is peace

Meaning: "Pull me as I pull you" tires the hands

Context: Endless struggle exhausts both sides — cooperation beats conflict

Meaning: The one who brings the spirit must also expel it

Context: Those who cause problems must solve them — responsibility belongs to the initiator

Meaning: He who hasn't outtalked a man has never fathered an elder

Context: Wisdom comes from dialogue and debate — speech shapes maturity

Meaning: Dogs that fight each other can't fend off a hyena

Context: Division weakens defense — unity is strength

Meaning: The last man drives the herd

Context: Responsibility falls on whoever is left behind — finish what others start

Meaning: A dog that refuses a bone isn't alive

Context: Some things are natural instincts — denying them means ruin

Meaning: Too much boasting or talking is never good

Context: Pride and chatter lead to folly — humility wins respect