It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep fire on one.
More German Proverbs:
Priests pay each other no tithes.German
Don't reckon without your host.
German
He who has to do with foxes must look after his hen-roost.
German
Where there's no love, there's no honour.
German
What one knows it is useful sometimes to forget.
German
What man has made, man can destroy.
German