Self-love Is The Greatest Of All Flatterers.

To Achieve Greatness One Should Live As If They Will Never Die.

The Measure Of Great Men Should Always Be Measured By The Means They Have Used To Acquire It.

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.

What Renders Us So Changeable In Our Friendship Is, That It Is Difficult To Know The Qualities Of The Soul, But Easy To Know Those Of The Mind.

Old People Are Fond Of Giving Good Advice; It Consoles Them For No Longer Being Capable Of Setting A Bad Example.