Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders

Few People Know Death, We Only Endure It, Usually From Determination, And Even From Stupidity And Custom; And Most Men Only Die Because They Know Not How To Prevent Dying.

There Are Persons Whose Only Merit Consists In Saying And Doing Stupid Things At The Right Time, And Who Ruin All If They Change Their Manners.

All Our Qualities, Whether Good Or Bad, Are Unstable And Ambiguous, And Almost All Are At The Mery Of Chance.

The Courage Of A Great Many Men, And The Virtue Of A Great Many Women, Are The Effect Of Vanity, Shame, And Especially A Suitabletemperament.

Most Of Our Faults Are More Pardonable Than The Means We Use To Conceal Them.