Men More Easily Renounce Their Interests Than

There Is No Praise We Have Not Lavished Upon Prudence; And Yet She Cannot Assure To Us The Most Trifling Event.

It Is No Tragedy To Do Ungrateful People Favors, But It Is Unbearable To Be Indebted To A Scoundrel.

Repentance Is Not So Much Remorse For What We Have Done As The Fear Of The Consequences.

Men And Things Have Each Their Proper Perspective; To Judge Rightly Of Some It Is Necessary To See Them Near, Of Others We Can Never Judge Rightly But At A Distance.

There Are Certain Defects Which, Well-mounted, Glitter Like Virtue Itself.