The more shepherds there are, the worse the flocks are watched. 牧羊人越多，看守羊群的人就越多。
Education is the movement from darkness to light. 教育是从黑暗到光明的运动。 -- Allan Bloom 布鲁姆
We judge of the present from the past. [The boy and the wolf.] 我们从过去判断现在。(男孩和狼)
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. 无德之美犹如无香之花，徒有其表。
Where rosemary grows the wife wears the trousers. 迷迭香生长的地方，妻子穿裤子。
Bring up a raven, and he will peck out your eyes. 你若养一只乌鸦来，它必啄出你的眼睛来。
Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one. 我觉得你的破罐子比我的好。