Passion Often Makes A Fool Of The

What Is Called Liberality Is Often Merely The Vanity Of Giving.

All Men Are Equally Proud. The Only Difference Is That Not All Take The Same Methods Of Showing It.

Pity Is A Sense Of Our Own Misfortunes In Those Of Another Man; It Is A Sort Of Foresight Of The Disasters Which May Befall Ourselves. We Assist Others,, In Order That They May Assist Us On Like Occasions; So That The Services We Offer To The Unfortunate Are In Reality So Many Anticipated Kindnesses To Ourselves.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often Nothing But An Assemblage Of Different Actions, And Of Different Interests, That Fortune Or Our Industry Knows How To Arrange.

In Friendship As Well As Love, Ignorance Very Often Contributes More To Our Happiness Than Knowledge.