Very Few People Are Acquainted With Death.

The Passions Do Very Often Give Birth To Others Of A Nature Most Contrary To Their Own. Thus Avarice Sometimes Brings Forth Prodigality, And Prodigality Avarice; A Man's Resolution Is Very Often The Effect Of Levity, And His Boldness That Of Cowardice And Fear.

Only The Contemptible Fear Contempt.

Gratitude Is Like The Good Faith Of Traders: It Maintains Commerce, And We Often Pay, Not Because It Is Just To Discharge Our Debts, But That We May More Readily Find People To Trust Us.

If We Are To Judge Of Love By Its Consequences, It More Nearly Resembles Hatred Than Friendship.

We Often Bore Others When We Think We Cannot Possibly Bore Them.