A Refusal Of Praise Is A Desire

One Thing Which Makes Us Find So Few People Who Appear Reasonable And Agreeable In Conversation Is, That There Is Scarcely Any One Who Does Not Think More Of What He Is About To Say Than Of Answering Precisely What Is Said To Him.

Flattery Is A Kind Of Bad Money, To Which Our Vanity Gives Us Currency.

Men Are Inconsolable Concerning The Treachery Of Their Friends Or The Deceptions Of Their Enemies; And Yet They Are Often Very Highly Satisfied To Be Both Deceived And Betrayed By Their Own Selves.

A Refusal Of Praise Is A Desire To Be Praised Twice.

We Have Not Strength Enough To Follow Our Reason So Far As It Would Carry Us.