Before We Passionately Desire A Thing, We

It Is Given To Few Persons To Keep This Secret Well. Those Who Lay Down Rules Too Often Break Them, And The Safest We Are Able To Give Is To Listen Much, To Speak Little, And To Say Nothing That That Will Ever Give Ground Or Regret.

Small Minds Are Much Distressed By Little Things. Great Minds See Them All But Are Not Upset By Them.

Fortune Converts Everything To The Advantage Of Her Favorites.

The Qualities We Have, Make Us So Ridiculous As Those Which We Affect.

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.