All The Passions Make Us Commit Faults;

Only The Great Can Afford To Have Great Defects.

Men Are Not Only Prone To Forget Benefits; They Even Hate Those Who Have Obliged Them, And Cease To Hate Those Who Have Injured Them. The Necessity Of Revenging An Injury, Or Of Recompensing A Benefit Seems A Slavery To Which They Are Unwilling To Submit.

We Only Acknowledge Small Faults In Order To Make It Appear That We Are Free From Great Ones.

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

Praise Is Flattery, Artful, Hidden, Delicate, Which Gratifies Differently Him Who Praises And Him Who Is Praised. The One Takes It As The Reward Of Merit, The Other Bestows It To Show His Impartiality And Knowledge.