Self-interest Makes Some People Blind, And Others

Jealousy Is Not So Much The Love Of Another As The Love Of Ourselves.

What Men Call Friendship Is No More Than A Partnership, A Mutual Care Of Interests, An Exchange Of Favors - In A Word, It Is A Sort Of Traffic, In Which Self-love Ever Proposes To Be The Gainer.

Tricks And Treachery Are Merely Proofs Of Lack Of Skill.

It Is Praiseworthy Even To Attempt A Great Action.

We Are Not Fond Of Praising, And Never Praise Any One Except From Interested Motives. Praise Is A Clever, Concealed, And Delicate Flattery, Which Gratifies In Different Ways The Giver And The Receiver. The One Takes It As A Recompense Of His Merit, And The Other Bestows It To Display His Equity And Discernment.