Justice.

Meaning: People may blame someone who is absent and hear a different account when that person is present. The contrast asks whether judgement changes when the person can explain.

Meaning: Good service can itself make a case for recognition or a fair return. The proverb values what someone contributes without making silent work a substitute for an explicit agreement.

Meaning: Helping another person carry out an action can make you part of its consequences. The supporting role in the image matters even though it does not perform the whole act.

Meaning: Someone arriving after a resource has been divided may find only leftovers. The bones image warns about distribution and timing without making that unequal result fair or deserved.

Meaning: The weakest person holding the candle pictures a supporting burden falling on someone with less power. The saying can prompt scrutiny of how tasks are assigned.

Meaning: Give people the recognition appropriate to their position or contribution. The historical language describes rank, while a modern reading can ask whether acknowledgement is accurate, respectful and fairly assigned.

Meaning: When the injury is the same, a superficial difference between its sources may not lessen what happened. Look at the effect and responsibility rather than using a label to excuse comparable harm.

Meaning: Confidence can depend on support that an observer does not see. Recognise the assistance behind an achievement before concluding that the same task should be equally easy for everyone.

Meaning: People commonly believe their own claim is justified. Confidence on both sides of a dispute is a reason to examine evidence, not a way to decide who is right.

Meaning: People doing a community’s work need a means of support. The altar represents the activity through which the priest serves and receives a livelihood.

Meaning: Place a shared resource where the community can reasonably reach it. The central belfry represents arrangements designed for common access rather than one person’s convenience.

Meaning: Take a sustainable benefit without destroying what supplies it. The contrast between shearing and flaying warns against extraction that becomes ruinous or cruel.

Meaning: The saying imagines hard work keeping hunger away. Read it as an ideal of secure livelihood rather than proof that effort alone prevents poverty or need.

Meaning: The seriousness of a fault can depend on the responsibility and influence of the person committing it. Greater power may create greater consequences and stronger duties.

Meaning: Rules can be influenced by the wishes of those who hold power. Distinguish the existence of a rule from evidence that it is impartial or fair.