To Praise Great Actions With Sincerity May

The Principal Point Of Cleverness Is To Know How To Value Things Just As They Deserve.

It Is Easy To Be Wise On Behalf Of Others Than To Be So For Ourselves.

Good Advice Is Something A Man Gives When He Is Too Old To Set A Bad Example.

There Is Something To Be Said For Jealousy, Because It Only Designs The Preservation Of Some Good Which We Either Have Or Think Wehave A Right To. But Envy Is A Raging Madness That Cannot Bear The Wealth Or Fortune Of Others.

Men Are Not Only Prone To Forget Benefits; They Even Hate Those Who Have Obliged Them, And Cease To Hate Those Who Have Injured Them. The Necessity Of Revenging An Injury, Or Of Recompensing A Benefit Seems A Slavery To Which They Are Unwilling To Submit.