Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.