Self-interest Makes Some People Blind, And Others

To Praise Great Actions Is In Some Sense To Share Them.

Jealousy Is Not So Much The Love Of Another As The Love Of Ourselves.

Humility Is Often Only The Putting On Of A Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A Morecalculated Sort Of Pride, Which Debases Itself With A Design Of Being Exalted; And Though This Vice Transform Itself Into A Thousand Several Shapes, Yet The Disguise Is Never More Effectual Nor More Capable Of Deceiving The World Than When Concealed Under A Form Of Humility.

We Take Less Pains To Be Happy, Than To Appear So.

History Never Embraces More Than A Small Part Of Reality