Hatched in the same nest.
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.