144
An honourable man with limited ideas often sees through the rascality of the most cunning jobber.
145
If a man feels no love, he must learn how to flatter; otherwise he will not succeed.
146
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him.
147
The masses cannot dispense with men of ability, and such men are always a burden to them.
148
If a man spreads my failings abroad, he is my master, even though he were my servant.
149
Whether memoirs are written by masters of servants, or by servants of masters, the processes always meet.
150
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
151
I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.
152
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
153
We are all so limited that we always think we are right; and so we may conceive of an extraordinary mind which not only errs but has a positive delight in error.