Our Enemies' Opinion Of Us Comes Closer

A Clever Man Should Handle His Interests So That Each Will Fall In Suitable Order Of Their Value.

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

Our Minds Are Lazier Than Our Bodies.

Chance Corrects Us Of Many Faults That Reason Would Not Know How To Correct.

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.