Reason Alone Is Insufficient To Make Us

Luxury And Excessive Refinement Are Sure Forerunners Of The Decadence Of States, Because When All Individuals Seek Their Own Interests They Neglect The Public Weal.

People Would Not Long Remain In Social Life If They Were Not The Dupes Of Each Other.

Fortune Cures Us Of Many Faults That Reason Could Not.

Never Give Anyone The Advice To Buy Or Sell Shares, Because The Most Benevolent Price Of Advice Can Turn Out Badly.

We Often Are Consoled By Our Want Of Reason For Misfortunes That Reason Could Not Have Comforted.