Vos inopes nostis, quis amicus quisve sit hostis.
Vulpes vult fraudem, lupus agnum, fœmina laudem.
Add to these a few of the same description, but unrhymed:
Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantam.
It is with this proverb, which is almost of all languages, that Lady Macbeth taunts her husband, as one—
“Letting, I dare not, wait upon, I would,
Like the poor cat i’ the adage.”—Act I. Scene 7.
Cochlea consiliis, in factis esto volucris.
Dat Deus omne bonum, sed non per cornua taurum.