Men More Easily Renounce Their Interests Than

All The Passions Are Nothing Else Than Different Degrees Of Heat And Cold Of The Blood.

Being A Blockhead Is Sometimes The Best Security Against Being Cheated By A Man Of Wit.

Intrepidity Is An Extraordinary Strength Of Soul, Which Raises It Above The Troubles, Disorders And Emotions Which The Sight Of Great Perils Can Arouse In It; By This Strength Heroes Maintain A Calm Aspect And Preserve Their Reason And Liberty In The Most Surprising And Terrible Accidents.

Nothing Is More Contagious Than Example, And No Man Does Any Exceeding Good Or Exceeding Ill But It Spawns New Deeds Of The Same Kind. The Good We Imitate Through Emulation, The Ill Through The Malignity Of Our Nature, Which Shame Keeps Locked Up, But Example Sets Free.

The Man Whom No One Pleases Is Much More Unhappy Than The Man Who Pleases No One.