Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.