Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Much outcry, little outcome.
We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.
If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.