Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.