Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.