The Reason We Bitterly Hate Those Who

The Old Begin To Complain Of The Conduct Of The Young When They Themselves Are No Longer Able To Set A Bad Example.

In The Misfortunes Of Our Best Friends We Always Find Something Not Altogether Displeasing To Us.

Without Humility, We Keep All Our Defects; And They Are Only Crusted Over By Pride, Which Conceals Them From Others, And Often From Ourselves.

Loyalty Is In Most People Only A Ruse Used By Self-interest To Attract Confidence.

Love Has Its Name Borrowed By A Great Number Of Dealings And Affairs That Are Attributed To It--in Which It Has No Greater Part Than The Doge In What Is Done At Venice.