The Temperament That Produces A Talent For

Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders To Virtue.

There Are Some People Who Would Never Have Fallen In Love If They Had Not Heard There Was Such A Thing.

We Are Much Harder On People Who Betray Us In Small Ways Than On People Who Betray Others In Great Ones.

A Wise Man Should Order His Interests, And Set Them All In Their Proper Places. This Order Is Often Troubled By Greed, Which Putsus Upon Pursuing So Many Things At Once That, In Eagerness For Matters Of Less Consideration, We Grasp At Trifles, And Let Go Things Of Greater Value.

Old Age Is A Tyrant, Who Forbids, Under Pain Of Death, The Pleasures Of Youth.