I Am Never Less Alone Than When

Friendship Is The Only Thing In The World Concerning The Usefulness Of Which All Mankind Are Agreed.

When You Are Aspiring To The Highest Place, It Is Honorable To Reach The Second Or Even The Third Rank.

It Is Easy To Distinguish Between The Joking That Reflects Good Breeding And That Which Is Coarse-the One, If Aired At An Apposite Moment Of Mental Relaxation, Is Becoming In The Most Serious Of Men, Whereas The Other Is Unworthy Of Any Free Person, If The Content Is Indecent Or The Expression Obscene.

Fear Is Not A Lasting Teacher Of Duty.

For Nothing Is More Commendable, Nothing More Becoming In A Preeminently Great Man Than Courtesy And Forbearance.