If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
The more you want, the more you stand to lose