Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.