Perfect Courage And Utter Cowardice Are Two

Some Crimes Get Honor And Renown By Being Committed With More Pomp, By A Greater Number, And In A Higher Degree Of Wickedness Thanothers. Hence It Is That Public Robberies, Plunderings, And Sackings Have Been Looked Upon As Excellencies And Noble Achievements, And The Seizing Of Whole Countries, However Unjustly And Barbarously, Is Dignified With The Glorious Name Of Gaining Conquests.

What Makes Vanity So Insufferable To Us, Is That It Hurts Our Own.

Chance Corrects Us Of Many Faults That Reason Would Not Know How To Correct.

Were We Perfectly Acquainted With The Object, We Should Never Passionately Desire It.

Clemency, Which We Make A Virtue Of, Proceeds Sometimes From Vanity, Sometimes From Indolence, Often From Fear, And Almost Always From A Mixture Of All Three.