If you be too wise, one
will expect too much of you;
if you be too foolish, you will be deceived;
if you be conceited, you will be thought vexatious;
if you be too talkative, you will not be heeded;
if you be too silent, you will not be regarded;
if you be too hard, you will be broken;
if you be too feeble, you will be crushed. The Instructions of Cormac
