Propriety Is The Least Of All Laws,

Few Know How To Be Old.

When Our Vices Desert Us, We Flatter Ourselves That We Are Deserting Our Vices.

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

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.

It Is As Easy To Deceive One's Self Without Perceiving It, As It Is Difficult To Deceive Others Without Their Finding Out.