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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The gods help them that help themselves.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Union gives strength.

United we stand, divided we fall.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Familiarity breed contempt.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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