You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

It is difficult to fly without wings.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Your wealth is where your friends are

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

Laws are subordinate to custom.