If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.