It is easy to despise what you cannot get

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

The gods help them who help themselves.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.