One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.