Fortune Cures Us Of Many Faults That

It Is Easier To Deceive Yourself, And To Do So Unperceived, Than To Deceive Another.

In Friendship As Well As Love, Ignorance Very Often Contributes More To Our Happiness Than Knowledge.

We Do Not Lack Strength So Much As The Will To Use It; And Very Often Our Imagining That Things Are Impossible Is Nothing But An Excuse Of Our Own Contriving, To Reconcile Ourselves To Our Own Idleness.

How Can We Expect Another To Keep Our Secret If We Have Been Unable To Keep It Ourselves?

Before We Set Our Hearts Too Much Upon Anything, Let Us Examine How Happy They Are, Who Already Possess It.