If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.
It is best to know the worst at once.
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Practice yourself what you preach.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.