We Are Never Either So Fortunate Or

Avarice Is More Opposite To Economy Than Liberality.

It Is The Prerogative Of Great Men Only To Have Great Defects.

What Is Called Generosity Is Usually Only The Vanity Of Giving; We Enjoy The Vanity More Than The Thing Given.

Even The Most Disinterested Love Is, After All, But A Kind Of Bargain, In Which Self-love Always Proposes To Be The Gainer One Wayor Another.

There Are No Circumstances, However Unfortunate, That Clever People Do Not Extract Some Advantage From.