Live your Life without Limits

'A thief does not reap more than the farmer himself'.
(b) Explanation: Some people use the fact that thieves will steal their crops as an excuse for not farming at all. This proverb admits this fact but goes on to say that, however much thieves may take from your farm, you as the farmer will always harvest more crops than they can.
(c) Moral Teaching: The moral lesson of this proverb is like the two previous ones, but its emphasis is slightly different. In every enterprise some minor losses should be expected and they should not deter you from embarking upon it, because with persistence and dogged-determination some reasonable reward will be reaped in the end.

'The vulture cannot cure baldness,
(because if it can it would have cured its own baldness.)
(b) Moral Teaching: In the traditional society some people lay claim to certain powers to cure diseases, to make others wealthy or to make barren women productive. The problem is, how do you test the validity of the claims that they make? This proverb establishes a standard for evaluating such claims. Whatever powers a person claims to have, such powers must be seen to make a practical
difference to his own life before his claims could be accepted as valid, and so anybody who accepts such claims without this test of their validity will be considered gullible. The proverb is counselling against the tendency to be gullible in such matters and recommends critical assessment and discernment instead of gullibility.

'The chicken says, "Fear is life".'
(b) Moral Teaching: There is time to show bravery and time to show 'fear, i.e. cautious retreat.

'There is no rain whose flood can submerge all mountains'
i.e. there is an end to every fall of rain.
(b) Moral Teaching: There is an end to everything and people are supposed to use this knowledge to guide their behaviour or to comfort themselves in their sufferings.

'Even the longest life ends in a grave, it does not prolong its longevity
beyond the grave'.
(b) Moral Teaching: This proverb also teaches that there is an end to everything especially to wealth and life. This warning, however, is not supposed to lead to a preparation for another life, or for a life that has no end. The purpose is rather to warn people to live circumspective and to avoid living without any thought of the end.

A baboon laughs at the buttocks of another baboon
Meaning: Everyone has his/her weakness.

It is better to be poor when one is young, rather than becoming poor at old age
Meaning: Young people should work hard.

To teach a heavy minded person is a lost of time of energy.
Everything passes over his his head.
Meaning: Don't loose your to share with somebody who has no intention of attention.

You can hang an item from where you are seated but when you want
to get it down you have to stand up.
Meaning: It is easier to start a conflict or war than to stop it.

When an epidemic does not kill you, it gives you some benefits.
Meaning: Conflict, war or calamities have both negative and positive consequences.