English proverbs:

• Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
• A hedge between keeps friendship green.
• A fault confessed is half redressed.
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• Please your eye and plague your heart.
• If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
• A good lawyer makes a bad neighbor.
• Speak fair and think what you will.
• It is not the suffering but the cause which makes a martyr.
• A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
• A foe is better than a dissembling friend.
• A disease known is half cured.
• Let your purse be your master.
• Short counsel is good counsel.

And “Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away.”