For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
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In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad.
man
There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.
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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
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