If It Were Not For The Company

The Most Violent Passions Sometimes Leave Us At Rest, But Vanity Agitates Us Constantly.

Pride Does Not Wish To Owe And Vanity Does Not Wish To Pay.

Love Has Its Name Borrowed By A Great Number Of Dealings And Affairs That Are Attributed To It--in Which It Has No Greater Part Than The Doge In What Is Done At Venice.

Moderation Cannot Have The Credit Of Combatiug And Subduing Ambition, They Are Never Found Together. Moderation Is The Languor And Indolence Of The Soul, As Ambition Is Its Activity And Ardor.

The Greatest Part Of Intimate Confidences Proceed From A Desire Either To Be Pitied Or Admired.