“United we stand; divided we fall.”

“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”

“once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”

“The more you want, the more you stand to lose”

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”