Who Is Fatal To Others Is So

Let The Degree Of Egotism Be The Measure Of Confidence.

Close Thine Ear Against Him That Shall Open His Mouth Secretly Against Another. If Thou Receivest Not His Words, They Fly Back And Wound The Reporter. If Thou Dost Receive Them, They Fly Forward And Wound The Receiver.

Indiscretion, Rashness, Falsehood, Levity, And Malice, Produce Each Other.

Borrowed Wit Is The Poorest Wit.

What Do I Owe To My Times, To My Country, To My Neighbors, To My Friends? Such Are The Questions Which A Virtuous Man Ought Often To Ask Himself.