A word to the wise is sufficient

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

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

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

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

He who dies for virtue does not perish.