If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.