The Aversion To Lying Is Often A

Of All Our Faults, The One We Avow Most Easily Is Idleness; We Persuade Ourselves That It Is Allied To All The Peaceable Virtues,and As For The Others, That It Does Not Destroy Them Utterly, But Only Suspends The Exercise Of Their Functions.

Solemnity Is A Device Of The Body To Hide The Faults Of The Mind.

Men Sometimes Think They Hate Flattery, But They Hate Only The Manner Of Flattering.

Those Who Are Condemned To Death Affect Sometimes A Constancy And Contempt For Death Which Is Only The Fear Of Facing It; So That One May Say That This Constancy And Contempt Are To Their Mind What The Bandage Is To Their Eyes.

We Should Only Affect Compassion, And Carefully Avoid Having Any.