The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
It is easy to kick a person when he is down.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.