No Matter How Brilliant An Action, It

To Establish Oneself In The World, One Does All One Can To Seem Established There Already.

When Love Becomes Labored We Welcome An Act Of Infidelity Towards Ourselves To Free Us From Fidelity.

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

The Boldest Stroke And Best Act Of Friendship Is Not To Disclose Our Own Failings To A Friend, But To Show Him His Own.

Those Who Are Condemned To Death Affect Sometimes A Constancy And Contempt For Death Which Is Only The Fear Of Facing It; So That One May Say That This Constancy And Contempt Are To Their Mind What The Bandage Is To Their Eyes.