To Eat Is A Necessity, But To

The Good Or The Bad Fortune Of Men Depends Not Less Upon Their Own Dispositions Than Upon Fortune.

We Are So Used To Dissembling With Others That In Time We Come To Deceive And Dissemble With Ourselves.

It Appears That Nature Has Hid At The Bottom Of Our Hearts Talents And Abilities Unknown To Us. It Is Only The Passions That Have The Power Of Bringing Them To Light, And Sometimes Give Us Views More True And More Perfect Than Art Could Possibly Do.

We Should Scarcely Desire Things Ardently If We Were Perfectly Acquainted With What We Desire.

Absence Diminishes Mediocre Passions And Increases Great Ones, As The Wind Extinguishes Candles And Fans Fires.