All The Passions Make Us Commit Faults;

The Evil That We Do Does Not Attract To Us So Much Persecution And Hatred As Our Good Qualities.

Pride Does Not Wish To Owe And Vanity Does Not Wish To Pay.

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.

We Should Often Feel Ashamed Of Our Best Actions If The World Could See All The Motives Which Produced Them.

We Often See Malefactors, When They Are Led To Execution, Put On Resolution And A Contempt Of Death Which, In Truth, Is Nothing Else But Fearing To Look It In The Face--so That This Pretended Bravery May Very Truly Be Said To Do The Same Good Office To Their Mind That The Blindfold Does To Their Eyes.