Pride, Which Inspires Us With So Much

Decency Is The Least Of All Laws, But Yet It Is The Law Which Is Most Strictly Observed.

Hope, Deceiving As It Is, Serves At Least To Lead Us To The End Of Our Lives By An Agreeable Route.

Every One Speaks Well Of His Own Heart, But No One Dares Speak Well Of His Own Mind.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.

Nothing Ought More To Humiliate Men Who Have Merited Great Praise Than The Care They Still Take To Boast Of Little Things.