We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Appearances are often deceiving.
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.