Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
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.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.