Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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.

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.