Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did

However Great The Advantages Given Us By Nature, It Is Not She Alone, But Fortune With Her, Which Makes Heroes.

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

What Keeps Us From Abandoning Ourselves Entirely To One Vice, Often, Is The Fact That We Have Several.

Honest People Will Respect Us For Our Merit: The Public, For Our Luck.

Were We Not Proud Ourselves, We Should Not Complain Of The Pride Of Others.