It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.
Distrust unsolicited advice.
We often despise what is most useful to us.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
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.