Whatever Pretended Causes We May Blame Our

We Should Often Blush At Our Noblest Deeds If The World Were To See All Their Underlying Motives.

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

If We Took As Much Pains To Be What We Ought, As We Do To Deceive Others By Disguising What We Are; We Might Appear As We Are, Without Being At The Trouble Of Any Disguise.

Politeness Of The Mind Is To Have Delicate Thoughts

Passions Often Produce Their Contraries: Avarice Sometimes Leads To Prodigality, And Prodigality To Avarice; We Are Often Obstinate Through Weakness And Daring Through Timidity.