Our Distrust Of Another Justifies His Deceit.

A Wise Man Should Order His Interests, And Set Them All In Their Proper Places. This Order Is Often Troubled By Greed, Which Putsus Upon Pursuing So Many Things At Once That, In Eagerness For Matters Of Less Consideration, We Grasp At Trifles, And Let Go Things Of Greater Value.

Too Great Haste To Repay An Obligation Is A Kind Of Ingratitude.

There Are Bad People Who Would Be Less Dangerous If They Were Quite Devoid Of Goodness.

That Which Occasions So Many Mistakes In The Computations Of Men, When They Expect Return For Favors, Is That The Giver's Pride And The Receiver's Cannot Agree Upon The Value Of The Kindness Done.

Jealousy Is Not So Much The Love Of Another As The Love Of Ourselves.