Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

It Is A Common Saying That Many Pecks Of Salt Must Be Eaten Before The Duties Of Friendship Can Be Discharged.

For Every Man's Nature Is Concealed With Many Folds Of Disguise, And Covered As It Were With Various Veils. His Brows, His Eyes, And Very Often His Countenance, Are Deceitful, And His Speech Is Most Commonly A Lie.

Dissimulation Creeps Gradually Into The Minds Of Men.

Who Doesn't Know That The First Law Of History Is Not To Dare To Say Anything False, And The Second Is Not To Refrain From Saying Anything True?

That Which Is Not Forbidden, Is Not On That Account Permitted.