Raillery Is More Insupportable Than Wrong; Because

Fortune Makes Our Virtues And Vices Visible, Just As Light Does The Objects Of Sight.

We Frequently Are Troublesome To Others, When We Think It Impossible For Us Ever To Be So.

Too Great Refinement Is False Delicacy, And True Delicacy Is Solid Refinement.

Our Minds Are Lazier Than Our Bodies.

We Often In Our Misfortunes Take That For Constancy And Patience Which Is Only Dejection Of Mind; We Suffer Without Daring To Holdup Our Heads, Just As Cowards Let Themselves Be Knocked On The Head Because They Have Not Courage To Strike Back.