You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

The evil that we know is best.