There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
Example is the best precept.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.
If words suffice not, blows must follow.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
The great do not always prevail.
It is possible to have too much of a good thing.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.
A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.
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