Work, wisdom, character

- Uzu amaro akpu ogene, ya nee Egbe anya n'odu — the stuck blacksmith should study the kite's tail. [T1 p.3]

- Ife onye acho ka o fu — you find what you look for. [T1 p.43]

- Onye nje nje ka onye isi awo malu ife — the traveled knows more than the grey-haired. [T1 p.69]

- Ife Ikenya dono ana fu, nwata ligolu enu Oji o ma-afu ya — what the elder sees seated, the child atop the iroko cannot. [T1 p.69]

- Ako bu Ije — wisdom is the way. [T2]

- Ebune ji isi eje ogu — the ram enters the fight head-first. [T2]

- Ikenga adighi ile, azilaa ya nku — the ineffective Ikenga becomes firewood. [T2]

- Onye malu ife egwu egwu atuba ya — who fully knows the terrible becomes afraid. [T1 p.66]

- O bu onye ujo ji ndu ya na Dike — the coward preserves both his life and the hero's. [T1 p.68]

- Ndu bu ahia — life is a marketplace; we came to buy and sell. [T2 Step 1 epigraph]

- Mpio nne ewu piofelu, nwa ya bia oha-ekwo nchi — the hole the mother goat passed through, her kid passes with ease. [T1 p.47]

- Ogodo kwe m na nnam wabalu mu ya, aburo obele ogodo — the cloth my father dressed me in fits me; it is no small cloth. [T1 p.47]