When We Exaggerate Our Friends' Tenderness Towards

The Daily Employment Of Cunning Marks A Little Mind, It Generally Happens That Those Who Resort To It In One Respect To Protect Themselves Lay Themselves Open To Attack In Another.

To Be A Great Man It Is Necessary To Know How To Profit By The Whole Of Our Good Fortune.

We Are So Used To Dissembling With Others That In Time We Come To Deceive And Dissemble With Ourselves.

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.

We Often Credit Ourselves With Vices The Reverse Of What We Have, Thus When Weak We Boast Of Our Obstinacy.