Give Assistance, Not Advice, In A Crisis.

Forbear Harping On What Was Of Yore, For It Is The Common Lot Of Mortals To Sustain The Ups And Downs Of Fortune.

Affairs Are Easier Of Entrance Than Of Exit; And It Is But Common Prudence To See Our Way Out Before We Venture In.

Persuasion Is Often More Effectual Than Force.

A Wild Boar Was Sharpening His Tusks Upon The Trunk Of A Tree In The Forest When A Fox Came By And Asked, Why Are You Doing That, Pray? The Huntsmen Are Not Out Today And There Are No Other Dangers At Hand That I Can See. True, My Friend, Replied The Boar, But The Instant My Life Is In Danger, I Shall Need To Use My Tusks. There Will Be No Time To Sharpen Them Then.

Never Soar Aloft On An Enemy's Pinions.