Our Good Qualities Expose Us More To

Gratitude, In Most Men, Is Only A Strong And Secret Hope Of Greater Favors.

Humility Is Often Merely Feigned Submissiveness Assumed In Order To Subject Others, An Artifice Of Pride Which Stoops To Conquer, And Although Pride Has A Thousand Ways Of Transforming Itself It Is Never So Well Disguised And Able To Take People In As When Masquerading As Humility.

Nothing Prevents One From Appearing Natural As The Desire To Appear Natural.

We Should Gain More By Letting The World See What We Are Than By Trying To Seem What We Are Not.

When We Exaggerate Our Friends' Tenderness Towards Us, It Is Often Less From Gratitude Than From A Desire To Exhibit Our Own Virtue.