Hope Is Such A Bait, It Covers

Friendship Is A Disinterested Commerce Between Equals; Love, An Abject Intercourse Between Tyrants And Slaves.

All His Faults Are Such That One Loves Him Still The Better For Them.

Wisdom Makes A Slow Defense Against Trouble, Though A Sure One In The End.

Philosophy Can Add To Our Happiness In No Other Manner But By Diminishing Our Misery; It Should Not Pretend To Increase Our Present Stock, But Make Us Economists Of What We Are Possessed Of. Happy Were We All Born Philosophers; All Born With A Talent Of Thus Dissipating Our Own Cares By Spreading Them Upon All Mankind.

Ask Me No Questions, And I'll Tell You No Lies.