Please all, and you will please none.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.
He that has many friends, has no friends.
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature