Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window
It is easy to despise what you cannot get
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.