Distrust interested advice.
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
Persuasion is better than force.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
One story sounds good until another is told
He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.