“Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.”

“once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.”

“It is easy to despise what you cannot get”

“Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.”

“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”

“Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.”

“Keep your place in life and your place will keep you”