Criticism Sometimes Is Really Praise, And Praise

We Torment Ourselves Rather To Make It Appear That We Are Happy Than To Become So.

We Are Never So Ridiculous Through What We Are As Through What We Pretend To Be.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.

A Wise Man Should Order His Interests, And Set Them All In Their Proper Places. This Order Is Often Troubled By Greed, Which Putsus Upon Pursuing So Many Things At Once That, In Eagerness For Matters Of Less Consideration, We Grasp At Trifles, And Let Go Things Of Greater Value.

Cunning And Treachery Proceed From Want Of Capacity.