Great profits, great risks. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Small profits and quick returns. [ Proverb ]

Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. [ William Shakespeare ]

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits. [ Goethe ]

He has committed the crime who profits by it. [ Seneca ]

What I possess I would gladly retain; change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. [ Goethe ]

The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrow we have undergone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of tomorrow. [ Johnson ]

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and aminated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. [ Quintilian ]