Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Painting is silent poetry.

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.