Taste May Change, But Inclination Never.

It Is Not In The Power Of Even The Most Crafty Dissimulation To Conceal Love Long, Where It Really Is, Nor To Counterfeit It Long Where It Is Not.

Even The Most Disinterested Love Is, After All, But A Kind Of Bargain, In Which Self-love Always Proposes To Be The Gainer One Wayor Another.

The Evil That We Do Does Not Attract To Us So Much Persecution And Hatred As Our Good Qualities.

We Often Do Shallow Good In Order To Accomplish Evil With Impunity.

A Wise Man Thinks It More Advantageous Not To Join The Battle Than To Win.