The Happiness And Misery Of Men Depend

It Is Given To Few Persons To Keep This Secret Well. Those Who Lay Down Rules Too Often Break Them, And The Safest We Are Able To Give Is To Listen Much, To Speak Little, And To Say Nothing That That Will Ever Give Ground Or Regret.

There Are Heroes Of Wickedness, As There Are Of Goodness.

Esteem Never Makes Ingrates.

There Are More Defects In Temperament Than In The Mind.

To Listen Closely And Reply Well Is The Highest Perfection We Are Able To Attain In The Art Of Conversation.