Gratitude Is A Lively Sense Of Benefits

It Is More Often From Pride Than From Ignorance That We Are So Obstinately Opposed To Current Opinions; We Find The First Places Taken, And We Do Not Want To Be The Last.

It Is No Tragedy To Do Ungrateful People Favors, But It Is Unbearable To Be Indebted To A Scoundrel.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

The Moderation Of People In Prosperity Is The Effect Of A Smooth And Composed Temper, Owing To The Calm Of Their Good Fortune.

People Are More Slanderous From Vanity Than From Malice.