Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.
It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.