“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”
William Shakespeare
“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”
Bible
“Battle not with monsters lest you become one.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
Yiddish Proverb
“Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”
William Blake
“Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.”
Copernicus