The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.