Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
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.
We often despise what is most useful to us.