The Contempt Of Riches In The Philosophers

As Uncommon A Thing As True Love Is, It Is Yet Easier To Find Than True Friendship.

There Are Some People Upon Whom Their Very Faults And Failings Sit Gracefully; And There Are Others Whose Very Excellencies And Accomplishments Do Not Become Them.

The Virtues And Vices Are All Put In Motion By Interest.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.

There Are Crimes Which Become Innocent And Even Glorious Through Their Splendor, Number And Excess.