Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Many littles make a much.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Behind the cross is the devil.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued