The Passions Often Engender Their Contraries.

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

Our Wisdom Is No Less At Fortune's Mercy Than Our Wealth.

Sincerity Is An Openness Of Heart; We Find It In Very Few People; What We Usually See Is Only An Artful Dissimulation To Win The Confidence Of Others.

Humility Is Often Merely Feigned Submissiveness Assumed In Order To Subject Others, An Artifice Of Pride Which Stoops To Conquer, And Although Pride Has A Thousand Ways Of Transforming Itself It Is Never So Well Disguised And Able To Take People In As When Masquerading As Humility.

Wit Sometimes Enables Us To Act Rudely With Impunity.