Please all, and you will please none.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.