It Is A Great Matter To Be

Conspiracies, Since They Cannot Be Engaged In Without The Fellowship Of Others, Are For That Reason Most Perilous; For As Most Men Are Either Fools Or Knaves, We Run Excessive Risk In Making Such Folk Our Companions.

There Is Nothing So Fleeting As The Memory Of Benefits Received.

He Who Imitates What Is Evil Always Goes Beyond The Example That Is Set; On The Contrary, He Who Imitates What Is Good Always Falls Short.

Experience Has Always Shown, And Reason Also, That Affairs Which Depend On Many Seldom Succeed.

Be Careful How You Do One Man A Pleasure Which Must Needs Occasion Equal Displeasure In Another. For He Who Is Thus Slighted Will Not Forget, But Will Think The Offence To Himself The Greater In That Another Profits By It; While He Who Receives The Pleasure Will Either Not Remember It, Or Will Consider The Favour Done Him Less Than It Really Was.