If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
In union there is strength.
The gods help them who help themselves.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.