Of All The Violent Passions, The One

There Are No Circumstances, However Unfortunate, That Clever People Do Not Extract Some Advantage From.

The Constancy Of The Wise Is Only The Talent Of Concealing The Agitation Of Their Hearts.

No Man Can Love A Second Time The Person Whom He Has Once Truly Ceased To Love.

We Feel Good And Ill Only In Proportion To Our Self-love.

The Cunningest Dissimulation Is When A Man Pretends To Be Caught In The Traps Others Set For Him; And A Man Is Never So Easily Over-reached As When He Is Contriving To Over-reach Others.