Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.