Extreme Boredom Provides Its Own Antidote.

When We Are Unable To Find Tranquility Within Ourselves, It Is Useless To Seek It Elsewhere.

Men Frequently Do Good Only To Give Themselves Opportunity Of Doing Ill With Impunity.

When The Philosophers Despised Riches, It Was Because They Had A Mind To Vindicate Their Own Merit, And Take Revenge Upon The Injustice Of Fortune By Vilifying Those Enjoyments Which She Had Not Given Them.

It Is As Easy To Deceive One's Self Without Perceiving It, As It Is Difficult To Deceive Others Without Their Finding Out.

What Keeps Us From Abandoning Ourselves Entirely To One Vice, Often, Is The Fact That We Have Several.