Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.