Many Young Persons Believe Themselves Natural When

The Clemency Of Princes Is Often But Policy To Win The Affections Of The People.

It Is Easier To Understand Mankind In General Than Any Individual Man.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often But An Assemblage Of Various Ambitions And Activities That Chance, Or Our Own Astuteness, Have Arranged In A Certain Manner; And It Is Not Always Out Of Courage Or Purity That Men Are Brave, And Women Chaste.

We Seldom Find People Ungrateful So Long As It Is Thought We Can Serve Them.

The More We Love, The Nearer We Are To Hate.