A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.