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There is no distinction that does not bring some kind of danger with it.
Better scare a thief than snare him.
When our neighbor’s house is on fire, it is time to save our own skin.
Sometimes ambition can lead us beyond the limits of our power.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
It is not always smart or safe to be a big fish in a small pond.
Never venture into an affair unless you know that there is a way out.
A deathbed repentance will not suffice to make amends to the errors of a lifetime.
No matter how powerful one’s position may be, there is nothing that can protect the oppressor in the end from the vengeance of the oppressed.
“True,” she replied, “but it is not only my little ones whom I mourn, but the fact that I was wronged in the very place to which the injured fly for justice.”
It is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet sounds to draw it.
Whoever allows his principles to be swayed by the influence and different needs of conflicting parties will end in having no principles at all.
The value of money depends not on accumulation but in its use.
Those people who are too anxious to know what the world thinks of them will seldom fetch the price they set upon themselves.
In fact the worst crime one can commit in an Aesopian fable is a foolish act. Aesop never forgives stupidity, conceit, arrogance, or vanity.
