Tis More Dishonourable To Distrust A Friend

We Sometimes Think That We Hate Flattery, But We Only Hate The Manner In Which It Is Done. [fr., On Croit Quelquefoir Hair La Flatterie; Maid On Ne Hait Que A Maniere De Flatter.]

Death, Like The Sun, Cannot Be Looked At Steadily.

That Which Makes The Vanity Of Others Unbearable To Us Is That Which Wounds Our Own.

Of All Our Faults, The One We Avow Most Easily Is Idleness; We Persuade Ourselves That It Is Allied To All The Peaceable Virtues,and As For The Others, That It Does Not Destroy Them Utterly, But Only Suspends The Exercise Of Their Functions.

Flattery Is A Counterfeit Money Which, But For Vanity, Would Have No Circulation.