It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

His head was turned by too great success.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Praise thyself never.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Man is a social animal.