Lies Are Sufficient To Breed Opinion, And

It Is Nothing Won To Admit Men With An Open Door, And To Receive Them With A Shut And Reserved Countenance.

Of Great Wealth There Is No Real Use, Except In Its Distribution, The Rest Is Just Conceit.

Secrecy In Suits Goes A Great Way Towards Success.

Lies Are Sufficient To Breed Opinion, And Opinion Brings On Substance.

For It Is Not Possible To Join Serpentine Wisdom With Columbine Innocence, Except Men Know Exactly All The Conditions Of The Serpent: His Baseness And Going Upon His Belly, His Volubility And Lubricity, His Envy And Sting, And The Rest; That Is, All Forms And Natures Of Evil: For Without This, Virtue Lieth Open And Unfenced.