Mockery Is Often The Result Of A

If You Wish To Be Held In Esteem, You Must Ssociate Only With Those Who Estimable.

Misers Are Neither Relations, Nor Friends, Nor Citizens, Nor Christians, Nor Perhaps Even Human Beings.

One Should Never Risk A Joke, Even Of The Mildest And Most Unexceptional Charters, Except Among People Of Culture And Wit.

No Vice Exists Which Does Not Pretend To Be More Or Less Like Some Virtue, And Which Does Not Take Advantage Of This Assumed Resemblance.

The Greatest Part Of Mankind Employ Their First Years To Make Their Last Miserable.