We Seldom Find Any Person Of Good

It Requires No Small Degree Of Ability To Know When To Conceal One's Ability.

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

It Is Often Hard To Determine Whether A Clear, Open, And Honorable Proceeding Is The Result Of Goodness Or Of Cunning.

A Man Convinced Of His Own Merit Will Accept Misfortune As An Honor, For Thus Can He Persuade Others, As Well As Himself, That He Is A Worthy Target For The Arrows Of Fate.

Very Few People Are Acquainted With Death. They Undergo It, Commonly, Not So Much Out Of Resolution As Custom And Insensitivity; And Most Men Die Because They Cannot Help It.