When We Exaggerate Our Friends' Tenderness Towards

Fortune Never Seems So Blind To Any As To Those On Whom She Bestows No Favors.

It Is Not Always For Virtue's Sake That Women Are Virtuous.

There Are Two Things Which Man Cannot Look At Directly Without Flinching: The Sun And Death.

The Aversion To Lying Is Often A Hidden Ambition To Render Our Words Credible And Weighty, And To Attach A Religious Aspect To Our Conversation.

The Sicknesses Of The Soul Have Their Ups And Downs Like Those Of The Body; What We Take To Be A Cure Is Most Often Merely A Respite Or Change Of Disease.