If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.
Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.