All Our Qualities, Whether Good Or Bad,

To Praise Great Actions Is In Some Sense To Share Them.

If We Did Not Flatter Ourselves, The Flattery Of Others Could Never Harm Us.

Jealousy Lives Upon Doubts. It Becomes Madness Or Ceases Entirely As Soon As We Pass From Doubt To Certainty.

Raillery Is More Insupportable Than Wrong; Because We Have A Right To Resent Injuries, But Are Ridiculous In Being Angry At A Jest.

Not To Love Is In Love An Infallible Means Of Being Loved.