Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need