What Renders Other People's Vanity Insufferable Is

Gallantry Of Mind Consists In Saying Flattering Things In An Agreeable Manner.

The Only Thing Constant In Life Is Change

The Most Violent Passions Sometimes Leave Us At Rest, But Vanity Agitates Us Constantly.

Wit Sometimes Enables Us To Act Rudely With Impunity.

Humility Is Often Only The Putting On Of A Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A Morecalculated Sort Of Pride, Which Debases Itself With A Design Of Being Exalted; And Though This Vice Transform Itself Into A Thousand Several Shapes, Yet The Disguise Is Never More Effectual Nor More Capable Of Deceiving The World Than When Concealed Under A Form Of Humility.