Few People Have The Wisdom To Prefer

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

Self-love Makes Our Friends Appear More Or Less Deserving In Proportion To The Delight We Take In Them, And The Measures By Whichwe Judge Of Their Worth Depend Upon The Manner Of Their Conversing With Us.

We Had Better Appear What We Are, Than Affect To Appear What We Are Not.

Self-love Is The Greatest Of All Flatterers.

We Exaggerate The Glory Of Some Men In Order To Detract From That Of Others.