It is absurd to ape our betters.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.
He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.