Appearances are deceiving.
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
There can be little liking where there is no likeness.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.