429
In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places, from everybody, than to work and win.
Rabelais.
430
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
Goethe.
431
There is nothing more daring than ignorance.
Menander.
432
It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off.
Chinese.
433
The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.
Panchatantra.