Only Great Men Have Great Faults.

It Is A Species Of Coquetry To Make A Parade Of Never Practising It.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

Generally Speaking, We Would Make A Good Bargain By Renouncing All The Good That People Say Of Us, Upon Condition They Would Say No Ill.

The Passions Are The Only Orators That Always Persuade: They Are, As It Were, A Natural Art, The Rules Of Which Are Infallible; And The Simplest Man With Passion Is More Persuasive Than The Most Eloquent Without It.

It Is As Commendable To Think Well Of Oneself When Alone, As It Is Ridiculous To Speak Well Of Oneself Among Others.