We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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.

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.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Appearances are often deceiving.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.