Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.