Brave Deeds Are Wasted When Hidden.

Our Reason Is Always Disappointed By The Inconstancy Of Appearances.

Vanity Is Illustrated In The Cause And Effect Of Love, As In The Case Of Cleopatra.

If A Soldier Or Labourer Complain Of The Hardship Of His Lot, Set Him To Do Nothing.

Human Life Is Thus Only An Endless Illusion. Men Deceive And Flatter Each Other. No One Speaks Of Us In Our Presence As He Does When We Are Gone. Society Is Based On Mutual Hypocrisy.

Man Is So Made That By Continually Telling Him He Is A Fool He Believes It, And By Continually Telling It To Himself He Makes Himself Believe It. For Man Holds An Inward Talk With Himself, Which It Pays Him To Regulate.