To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. |
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. |
To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in them. |
To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity |
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. |
To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him |
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details, and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. |
Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. |
Too great an eagerness to discharge an obligation is a species of ingratitude |
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. |
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. |
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill |
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world |
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only |
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. |