To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
