Our Distrust Of Another Justifies His Deceit.

How Can We Be Answerable For What We Shall Want In The Future, Since We Have No Clear Idea Of What We Want Now?

We Own Up To Minor Failings, But Only So As To Convince Others That We Have No Major Ones.

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.

Philosophy Triumphs Easily Over Past Evils And Future Evils, But Present Evils Triumph Over It.

Wisdom Is The Mind What Health Is To The Body.