It Is Much Easier To Seem Fitted

One Thing Which Makes Us Find So Few People Who Appear Reasonable And Agreeable In Conversation Is, That There Is Scarcely Any One Who Does Not Think More Of What He Is About To Say Than Of Answering Precisely What Is Said To Him.

The Most Subtle Of Our Acts Is To Simulate Blindness For Snares That We Know Are Set For Us.

Humility Is Often A False Front We Employ To Gain Power Over Others.

Pride Does Not Wish To Owe And Vanity Does Not Wish To Pay.

What We Cut Off From Our Other Faults Is Very Often But So Much Added To Our Pride.