Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
Enough 's as good as a feast.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.