Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.