Once A Wolf, Always A Wolf.

Familiarity Gives Rise To Contempt.

If You Wish Me Well, Do Not Stand Pitying Me, But Lend Me Some Succour As Fast As You Can; For Pity Is But Cold Comfort When One Is Up To The Chin In Water, And Within A Hair's Breadth Of Starving Or Drowning.

Better Poverty Without Care, Than Riches With.

It Is Easier To Become Entangled With An Enemy Than To Disentangle Oneself Afterwards.

Every One Is More Or Less Master Of His Own Fate.