4513. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.
4514. In your apparel be modest, and endeavor to accommodate nature rather than to procure admiration; keep to the fashion of your equals, such as are civil and orderly with respect to times and places.
4515. Associate yourselves with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
4516. Be not immodest in urging your friend to discover a secret.
4517. Utter not base or frivolous things amongst grave and learned men; nor very difficult questions or subjects among the ignorant; nor things hard to be believed.