The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
We heed no instincts but our own.
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.