We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

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.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

A kindness is never wasted

Example is the best precept.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.