Virtue Would Not Make Such Advances If

It Is More Often From Pride Than From Defective Understanding That People Oppose Established Opinions: They Find The Best Places Taken In The Good Party And Are Reluctant To Accept Inferior Ones.

Our Probity Is Not Less At The Mercy Of Fortune Than Our Property.

Our Aversion To Lying Is Commonly A Secret Ambition To Make What We Say Considerable, And Have Every Word Received With A Religious Respect.

Sobriety Is Love Of Health, Or Inability To Eat Much.

We Are Never So Ridiculous Through What We Are As Through What We Pretend To Be.