Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.