When We Exaggerate Our Friends' Tenderness Towards

We Are Easily Comforted For The Misfortunes Of Our Friends, When Those Misfortunes Give Us An Occasion Of Expressing Our Affection And Solicitude.

A Fool Has Not Material Enough To Be Good. [fr., Un Sot N'a Pas Assez D'etoffe Pour Etre Bon.]

Those Who Are Incapable Of Committing Great Crimes Do Not Readily Suspect Them In Others.

To Praise Great Actions Is In Some Sense To Share Them.

The Mark Of Extraordinary Merit Is To See Those Most Envious Of It Constrained To Praise.