Self-interest Makes Some People Blind, And Others

We Should Scarcely Desire Things Ardently If We Were Perfectly Acquainted With What We Desire.

When The Heart Is Still Disturbed By The Relics Of A Passion It Is Proner To Take Up A New One Than When Wholly Cured.

We Rarely Ever Perceive Others As Being Sensible, Except For Those Who Agree With Us.

It Seems That Nature, Which Has So Wisely Disposed Our Bodily Organs With A View To Our Happiness, Has Also Bestowed On Us Pride, To Spare Us The Pain Of Being Aware Of Our Imperfections.

The Moderation Of Men In The Most Exalted Fortunes Is A Desire To Be Thought Above Those Things That Have Raised Them So High.