Only Strong Natures Can Really Be Sweet

All The Passions Make Us Commit Faults; Love Makes Us Commit The Most Ridiculous Ones.

It Is Most Difficult To Speak When We Are Ashamed Of Being Silent.

Humility Is Often Only The Putting On Of A Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A Morecalculated Sort Of Pride, Which Debases Itself With A Design Of Being Exalted; And Though This Vice Transform Itself Into A Thousand Several Shapes, Yet The Disguise Is Never More Effectual Nor More Capable Of Deceiving The World Than When Concealed Under A Form Of Humility.

It Is As Common For Tastes To Change As It Is Uncommon For Traits Of Character.

Affected Simplicity Is A Subtle Imposture.