Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Equals make the best friends.
All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.