Our Virtues Are Often, In Reality, No

The Desire Which Urges Us To Deserve Praise Strengthens Our Good Qualities, And Praise Given To Wit, Valour, And Beauty, Tends To Increase Them.

Nature Creates Ability; Luck Provides It With Opportunity.

There Are Certain Defects Which, Well-mounted, Glitter Like Virtue Itself.

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

Too Great Cleverness Is But Deceptive Delicacy, True Delicacy Is The Most Substantial Cleverness.