True Eloquence Consists In Saying All That

We Should Only Affect Compassion, And Carefully Avoid Having Any.

Hope, Deceitful As It Is, Carries Us Through Life Agreeably Enough.

There Are Follies As Catching As Contagious Disorders.

One Is Never As Happy Or As Unhappy As One Thinks.

Self-love Is The Love Of A Man's Own Self, And Of Everything Else For His Own Sake. It Makes People Idolaters To Themselves, And Tyrants To All The World Besides.