We Endeavor To Make A Virtue Of

Fortune Makes Our Virtues And Vices Visible, Just As Light Does The Objects Of Sight.

We Have No Patience With Other People's Vanity Because It Is Offensive To Our Own.

There Are Crimes Which Become Innocent And Even Glorious Through Their Splendor, Number And Excess.

It Is Easier To Rule Others Than To Keep From Being Ruled Oneself.

Our Actions Are Like The Terminations Of Verses, Which We Rhyme As We Please.