Many receive advice, few profit by it.
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.