We Would Rather Speak Ill Of Ourselves

It Is Easier To Deceive Yourself, And To Do So Unperceived, Than To Deceive Another.

He That Fancies Such A Sufficiency In Himself That He Can Live Without All The World Is Greatly Mistaken; But He That Imagines Himself So Necessary That Other People Cannot Live Without Him Is A Great Deal More Mistaken.

Magnanimity Is Sufficiently Defined By Its Name, Nevertheless One Can Say It Is The Good Sense Of Pride, The Most Noble Way Of Receiving Praise.

Funeral Pomp Is More For The Vanity Of The Living Than For The Honor Of The Dead.

The Surest Proof Of Being Endowed With Noble Qualities Is To Be Free From Envy.