Our Self-love Can Less Bear To Have

Imagination Does Not Enable Us To Invent As Many Different Contradictions As There Are By Nature In Every Heart.

Politeness Of Mind Consists In Thinking Chaste And Refined Thoughts.

What Is Called Liberality Is Often Merely The Vanity Of Giving.

We Promise According To Our Hopes And Perform According To Our Fears.

Self-love Makes Our Friends Appear More Or Less Deserving In Proportion To The Delight We Take In Them, And The Measures By Whichwe Judge Of Their Worth Depend Upon The Manner Of Their Conversing With Us.