None can be so true to your secret as yourself.
If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.