People Are More Slanderous From Vanity Than

Our Wisdom Lies As Much At The Mercy Of Fortune As Our Possessions Do.

Women's Virtue Is Frequently Nothing But A Regard To Their Own Quiet And A Tenderness For Their Reputation.

What Men Have Called Friendship Is Only A Social Arrangement, A Mutual Adjustment Of Interests, An Interchange Of Services Given And Received; It Is, In Sum, Simply A Business From Which Those Involved Propose To Derive A Steady Profit For Their Own Self-love.

Truth Does Not Do As Much Good In The World As Its Imitations Do Harm.

The Man Whom No One Pleases Is Much More Unhappy Than The Man Who Pleases No One.