Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
The way to rise is to obey and please.
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.