It is absurd to ape our betters.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
In union there is strength.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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.
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.