Hypocrisy Is The Homage Vice Pays To

It Is As Proper To Have Pride In Oneself As It Ridiculous To Show It To Others.

Politeness Is A Desire To Be Treated Politely, And To Be Esteemed Polite Oneself.

Some Follies Are Caught, Like Contagious Diseases.

On Why I Don't Trust Democracy Without Extremely Powerful Systems Of Accountability And Recall What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often Only Disguised Ambition - Which Despises Small Interests To Gain Great Ones.

We Are So Used To Dissembling With Others That In Time We Come To Deceive And Dissemble With Ourselves.