Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.