But be thou frugal in commending; so will he give honour to thy judgment:
For thou that dost so zealously commend, art acknowledging thine own inferiority,
And he, thou so highly hast exalted, shall proudly look down on thy esteem.
Wilt thou that one remember a thing?—praise him in the midst of thy advice;
Never yet forgat man the word whereby he hath been praised.
Better to be censured by a thousand fools, than approved but by one man that is wise;
For the pious are slower to help right, than the profane to hinder it:
So, where the world rebuketh, there look thou for the excellent,
And be suspicious of the good, which wicked men can praise.
The captain bindeth his troop, not more by severity than kindness,