Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
a contemptible woman when she gets a husband and a maid when she supplants her mistress.
the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways and be wise.