Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
Man proposes, God disposes.