We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office..

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis..

Persuasion is better than force..

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another..

Once a wolf, always a wolf..

The great do not always prevail..

Implementation beats oration..

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched..

Equals make the best friends..

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield..

Don't make much ado about nothing..

He that has many friends, has no friends..

None but those who work are entitled to eat..

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities..

There is always someone worse off than yourself..

Acquaintance softens prejudice..

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it..

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not..

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others..

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

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed..