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.

Appearances are often deceiving.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.