Distrust unsolicited advice.
Kindness effects more than severity.
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
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.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.