What Makes Lovers Never Tire

Self-love, As It Happens To Be Well Or Ill Conducted, Constitutes Virtue And Vice.

It Is Not Enough That We Should Succeed, But Our Friends Must Fail As Well.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often Nothing But An Assemblage Of Different Actions, And Of Different Interests, That Fortune Or Our Industry Knows How To Arrange.

We Should Only Affect Compassion, And Carefully Avoid Having Any.

Moderation Is Caused By The Fear Of Exciting The Envy And Contempt Which Those Merit Who Are Intoxicated With Their Good Fortune; It Is A Vain Display Of Our Strength Of Mind, And In Short The Moderation Of Men At Their Greatest Height Is Only A Desire To Appear Greater Than Their Fortune.