Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.