Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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.
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.