If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.