Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did

To Be A Great Man It Is Necessary To Know How To Profit By The Whole Of Our Good Fortune.

We Feel Good And Ill Only In Proportion To Our Self-love.

There Is Something To Be Said For Jealousy, Because It Only Designs The Preservation Of Some Good Which We Either Have Or Think Wehave A Right To. But Envy Is A Raging Madness That Cannot Bear The Wealth Or Fortune Of Others.

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

What We Call Generosity Is For The Most Part Only The Vanity Of Giving; And We Exercise It Because We Are More Fond Of That Vanity Than Of The Thing We Give.