Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders

Philosophy Finds It An Easy Matter To Vanquish Past And Future Evils, But The Present Are Commonly Too Hard For It.

Pride Has A Greater Share Than Goodness In The Reproofs We Give Other People For Their Faults; And We Chide Them Not So Much To Make Them Mend Those Faults As To Make Them Believe That We Ourselves Are Without Fault.

The Surest Proof Of Being Endowed With Noble Qualities Is To Be Free From Envy.

The Reason Why Lovers Are Never Bored Together Is That They Are Always Talking Of Themselves.

Fortunate Persons Hardly Ever Amend Their Ways: They Always Imagine That They Are In The Right When Fortune Upholds Their Bad Conduct.