There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.
The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.