Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
I know all that better than my own name.