Youth Is A Continual Intoxication; It Is

Ordinary Men Commonly Condemn What Is Beyond Them.

We Are Much Mistaken If We Think That Men Are Always Brave From A Principle Of Valor, Or Women Chaste From A Principle Of Modesty.

Nature Seems At Each Man's Birth To Have Marked Out The Bounds Of His Virtues And Vices, And To Have Determined How Good Or How Wicked That Man Shall Be Capable Of Being.

There Are Few People Who Are More Often In The Wrong Than Those Who Cannot Endure To Be So.

Tricks And Treachery Are Merely Proofs Of Lack Of Skill.