Character And Intelligence Are The

Nature Scarcely Ever Gives Us The Very Best; For That We Must Have Recourse To Art.

When Everyone Covets Something, They Are Easily Annoyed By It.

Always Act As If You Were Seen.

Never Lose Your Self-respect, Nor Be Too Familiar With Yourself When You Are Alone. Let Your Integrity Itself Be Your Own Standard Of Rectitude, And Be More Indebted To The Severity Of Your Own Judgment Of Yourself Than To All External Percepts. Desist From Unseemly Conduct, Rather Out Of Respect For Your Own Virtue Than For The Strictures Of External Authority.

Exaggeration Is A Branch Of Lying.