The gods help them who help themselves.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.