The Passions Often Engender Their Contraries.

One Is Never As Happy Or As Unhappy As One Thinks.

Humility Is Often Only A Feigned Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A More Calculated Sort Of Pride.

It Is A Wearisome Disease To Preserve Health By Too Strict A Regimen.

In Their Early Passions Women Are In Love With The Lover, Later They Are In Love With Love.

More Men Are Guilty Of Treason Through Weakness Than Any Studied Design To Betray.