The Most Subtle Of Our

We Should Often Blush At Our Noblest Deeds If The World Were To See All Their Underlying Motives.

The Love Of New Acquaintance Comes Not So Much From Being Weary Of What We Had Before, Or From Any Satisfaction There Is In Change, As From The Distaste We Feel In Being Too Little Admired By Those That Know Us Too Well, And The Hope Of Being More Admired By Those That Know Us Less.

A Wise Man Thinks It More Advantageous Not To Join The Battle Than To Win.

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

What We Take For High-mindedness Is Very Often No Other Than Ambition Well Disguised, That Scorns Means Interests, Only To Pursuegreater.