Self-love, As It Happens To

Before Strongly Desiring Anything, We Should Look Carefully Into The Happiness Of Its Present Owner.

It Is Often Laziness And Timidity That Keep Us Within Our Duty While Virtue Gets All The Credit.

Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders To Virtue.

It Is Only Persons Of Firmness That Can Have Real Gentleness. Those Who Appear Gentle Are, In General, Only A Weak Character, Which Easily Changes Into Asperity.

We Exaggerate The Glory Of Some Men In Order To Detract From That Of Others.