We Are So Used To Dissembling With

It Is Often Merely For An Excuse That We Say Things Are Impossible.

The Moderation Of Men In The Most Exalted Fortunes Is A Desire To Be Thought Above Those Things That Have Raised Them So High.

It Is Difficult To Like Those Whom We Do Not Esteem; But It Is No Less So To Like Those Whom We Esteem More Than Ourselves.

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.

Nothing Hinders A Thing From Being Natural So Much As The Straining Ourselves To Make It Seem So.