Idiom doesn't quite capture it, as the statements mean what the words mean. (English is a language of inscrutable idiom loosely held together by a few indifferently applied rules. Kinda like democracy.)
Aphorism or maxim? Seems more like it. But it doesn't catch the local wisdom quotient.
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