Affected Simplicity Is An Elegant Imposture.

To Praise Great Actions With Sincerity May Be Said To Be Taking Part In Them.

We Only Confess Our Little Faults To Persuade People That We Have No Big Ones.

There Are Persons Whose Only Merit Consists In Saying And Doing Stupid Things At The Right Time, And Who Ruin All If They Change Their Manners.

What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often No More Than Disguised Ambition, Which Overlooks A Small Interest In Order To Secure A Great One.

People Are More Slanderous From Vanity Than From Malice.