Old Fools Are Greater Fools Than Young

Some People Displease With Merit, And Others' Very Faults And Defects Are Pleasing.

No Men Are Oftener Wrong Than Those That Can Least Bear To Be So.

The Surest Way To Be Deceived Is To Consider Oneself Cleverer Than Others.

Constancy In Love Is A Perpetual Inconstancy Which Fixes Our Hearts Successively To All The Qualities Of The Person Loved--sometimes Admiring One And Sometimes Another Above All The Rest--so That This Constancy Roves As Far As It Can, And Is No Better Than Inconstancy, Confined Within The Compass Of One Person.

What Men Have Called Friendship Is Only A Social Arrangement, A Mutual Adjustment Of Interests, An Interchange Of Services Given And Received; It Is, In Sum, Simply A Business From Which Those Involved Propose To Derive A Steady Profit For Their Own Self-love.