The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
Once a wolf, always a wolf.
If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.
Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.