He Who Flatters A Man Is His

If I Were Travelling With Two Partners, One Virtuous And One Dishonest, Both Would Be Useful As Teachers. I Would Perceive What's Good Of The First One And I Would Imitate Him Whereas I Would Try To Correct In Me The Defects I May See In The Second One.

If You Did Not Do So For The Sake Of Riches,you Must Have Done So For The Sake Of Novelty.

From The Loving Example Of One Family A Whole State May Become Loving, And From Its Courtesies, Courteous; While From The Ambition And Perverseness Of The One Man The Whole State May Be Thrown Into Rebellious Disorder. Such Is The Nature Of Influence.

On Matters Beyond His Ken A Gentleman Speaks With Caution. If Names Are Not Right, Words Are Misused. When Words Are Misused, Affairs Go Wrong. When Affairs Go Wrong, Courtesy And Music Droop, Law And Justice Fail. And When Law And Justice Fail Them, A People Can Move Neither Hand Nor Foot. So A Gentleman Must Be Ready To Put Names In Speech, To Put Words Into Deeds. A Gentleman Is Nowise Careless Of Words.

We Should Feel Sorrow, But Not Sink Under Its Oppression.