The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.
Richter.
342.
Learning dissipates many doubts, and causes things otherwise invisible to be seen, and is the eye of everyone who is not absolutely blind.
Hitopadesa.
343.
Very distasteful is excessive fame
To the sour palate of the envious mind,
Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name,
And hates the fortune that he ne’er shall find.