Honest People Will Respect Us For Our

Nothing Is Rarer Than True Good Nature; They Who Are Reputed To Have It Are Generally Only Pliant Or Weak.

The Measure Of Great Men Should Always Be Measured By The Means They Have Used To Acquire It.

The Name And Pretense Of Virtue Is As Serviceable To Self-interest As Are Real Vices.

The Contempt Of Riches In The Philosophers Was A Concealed Desire Of Revenging On Fortune The Injustice Done To Their Merit, By Despising The Good She Denied Them.

Of All Our Faults, The One That We Excuse Most Easily Is Idleness.