Appearances are deceptive.
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
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.
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.