We Are Eager To Believe That Others

The Generality Of Friends Puts Us Out Of Conceit With Friendship; Just As The Generality Of Religious People Puts Us Out Of Conceit With Religion.

Absence Cools Moderate Passions, And Inflames Violent Ones; Just As The Wind Blows Out Candles, But Kindles Fires.

Too Great Haste To Repay An Obligation Is A Kind Of Ingratitude.

Flattery Is A Kind Of Bad Money, To Which Our Vanity Gives Us Currency.

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.