What We Take For High-mindedness Is Very

In All Aspects Of Life, We Take On A Part And An Appearance To Seem To Be What We Wish To Be--and Thus The World Is Merely Composed Of Actors.

The Passions Of Youth Are Not More Dangerous To Health Than Is The Lukewarmness Of Old Age.

True Friendship Destroys Envy, And True Love Destroys Coquetterie.

Some People Are So Extremely Whiffling And Inconsiderable That They Are As Far From Any Real Faults As From Substantial Virtues.

It Is Necessary, In Order To Know Things Well, To Know The Particulars Of Them; And These, Being Infinite, Make Our Knowledge Eversuperficial And Imperfect.