Weak People Cannot Be Sincere.

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

They That Apply Themselves To Trifling Matters Commonly Become Incapable Of Great Ones.

A Man Convinced Of His Own Merit Will Accept Misfortune As An Honor, For Thus Can He Persuade Others, As Well As Himself, That He Is A Worthy Target For The Arrows Of Fate.

If We Took As Much Pains To Be What We Ought, As We Do To Deceive Others By Disguising What We Are; We Might Appear As We Are, Without Being At The Trouble Of Any Disguise.

The Good Or The Bad Fortune Of Men Depends Not Less Upon Their Own Dispositions Than Upon Fortune.