First of all, I would like to talk that we “Thai” people, we live with teaching and belief from generation to generation. Because these things are the truth, even made from old people or ancestor. It is still the dharmic truth. There fore, these maxims reflect to our society tremendously clearly.
I think every society live the life like some of these maxims. For example, “Dogs don’t bite minors who walk behind the senior”. We know that it is like this since this world has human. Maybe we don’t even know that it is written as the proverb that always warn and tell us to stay carefully. It is like the nature of human and the art of using a life happily and securely. Another proverb “Speak tactfully to satisfy both parties”, this is exactly