Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Liars often set their own traps.

Vices are their own punishment

Obscurity often brings safety.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.