Our Distrust Of Another Justifies

Hypocrisy Is The Homage Vice Pays To Virtue.

If One Judges Love By The Majority Of Its Effects, It Is More Like Hatred Than Like Friendship.

Virtues Lose Themselves In Self-interest, As Rivers In The Sea.

Almost Everyone Takes Pleasure In Repaying Trifling Obligations, Very Many Feel Gratitude For Those That Are Moderate; But There Is Scarcely Anyone Who Is Not Ungrateful For Those That Are Weighty.

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