What We Cut Off From Our Other

The Pleasure Of Love Is In Loving; We Are Happier In The Passion We Feel Than In What We Inspire.

Our Greediness So Often Troubles Us, Making Us Run After So Many Things At The Same Time, That While We Too Eagerly Look After The Least We Miss The Greatest.

There Are Women Who Never Had An Intrigue; But There Are Scarce Any Who Never Had But One.

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

On Why I Don't Trust Democracy Without Extremely Powerful Systems Of Accountability And Recall What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often Only Disguised Ambition - Which Despises Small Interests To Gain Great Ones.