Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Once a wolf, always a wolf.
Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.
The gods help them who help themselves.