People's Personalities, Like Buildings, Have Various Facades,

We Confess To Little Faults Only To Persuade Ourselves We Have No Great Ones.

It Is A Great Act Of Cleverness To Be Able To Conceal One's Being Clever.

On Why I Don't Trust Democracy Without Extremely Powerful Systems Of Accountability And Recall What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often Only Disguised Ambition - Which Despises Small Interests To Gain Great Ones.

He Who Imagines He Can Do Without The World Deceives Himself Much; But He Who Fancies The World Cannot Do Without Him Is Still More Mistaken.

That Conduct Often Seems Ridiculous The Secret Reasons Of Which Are Wise And Solid.