Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
He will be beloved when he is no more.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.