Silence Is The Safest Policy If You

Truth Does Less Good In The World Than Its Appearances Do Harm.

In Great Affairs We Ought To Apply Ourselves Less To Creating Chances Than To Profiting From Those That Offer.

In Infants, Levity Is A Prettiness; In Men A Shameful Defect; But In Old Age, A Monstrous Folly.

Too Great Refinement Is False Delicacy, And True Delicacy Is Solid Refinement.

To Know Oneself Is Not Necessarily To Improve Oneself