Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders

The Temperament That Produces A Talent For Little Things Is The Opposite Of That Required For Great Ones.

We Are So Accustomed To Disguise Ourselves To Others That In The End We Become Disguised To Ourselves.

Great Names Abase, Instead Of Elevating, Those Who Do Not Know How To Bear Them.

Of All Our Faults, The One We Avow Most Easily Is Idleness; We Persuade Ourselves That It Is Allied To All The Peaceable Virtues,and As For The Others, That It Does Not Destroy Them Utterly, But Only Suspends The Exercise Of Their Functions.

Considering How Little The Beginning Or The Ceasing To Love Is In Our Own Power, It Is Foolish And Unreasonable For The Lover Or His Mistress To Complain Of One Another's Inconstancy.