If We Are Incapable Of Finding Peace

The Most Sure Method Of Subjecting Yourself To Be Deceived Is To Consider Yourself More Cunning Than Others.

A Lofty Mind Always Thinks Nobly, It Easily Creates Vivid, Agreeable, And Natural Fancies, Places Them In Their Best Light, Clothes Them With All Appropriate Adornments, Studies Others' Tastes, And Clears Away From Its Own Thoughts All That Is Useless And Disagreeable.

What Makes Vanity So Insufferable To Us, Is That It Hurts Our Own.

People Are More Slanderous From Vanity Than From Malice.

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