Don't go looking for trouble.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.