Our Self-love Can Less Bear To Have

Our Envy Always Outlives The Felicity Of Its Object.

It Requires Greater Virtues To Support Good Fortune Than Bad.

We Easily Forget Crimes That Are Known To None But Ourselves.

The Aversion To Lying Is Often A Hidden Ambition To Render Our Words Credible And Weighty, And To Attach A Religious Aspect To Our Conversation.

Very Few People Are Acquainted With Death. They Undergo It, Commonly, Not So Much Out Of Resolution As Custom And Insensitivity; And Most Men Die Because They Cannot Help It.