Vices are their own punishment

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Little by little does the trick

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

As a babysitter my mother trusted you with her children and your broke that trust by touching her daughter

Slow but steady wins the race.

Familiarity breed contempt.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Much outcry, little outcome

Appearances are deceptive.