Never Give Anyone The Advice To Buy

A Clever Man Should Handle His Interests So That Each Will Fall In Suitable Order Of Their Value.

We Forget Our Faults Easily When They Are Known To Ourselves Alone.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.

If We Took As Much Pains To Be What We Ought, As We Do To Deceive Others By Disguising What We Are; We Might Appear As We Are, Without Being At The Trouble Of Any Disguise.

Few People Have The Wisdom To Prefer The Criticism That Would Do Them Good, To The Praise That Deceives Them.