The Fact Speak For Themselves.

Nothing Is So Easy As To Deceive Oneself; For What We Wish, We Readily Believe.

To Remind A Man Of The Good Turns You Have Done Him Is Very Much Like A Reproach.

Beware Lest In Your Anxiety To Avoid War You Obtain A Master

He Who Confers A Favor Should At Once Forget It, If He Is Not To Show A Sordid Ungenerous Spirit. To Remind A Man Of A Kindness Conferred And To Talk Of It, Is Little Different From Reproach.

Nothing Is More Easy Than To Deceive One's Self, As Our Affections Are Subtle Persuaders.