Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need
of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they
blind.




V

Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill-disciplined looseness of tongue.




VI

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from
others twice as much as we speak.




VII

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself
judged in the tribunal of Justice.