To Know How To Hide One's Ability

Whatever Pretext We May Give For Our Affections, Often It Is Only Interest And Vanity Which Cause Them.

Those Who Are Themselves Incapable Of Great Crimes Are Ever Backward To Suspect Others.

Envy Is Destroyed By True Friendship, As Coquetry By True Love.

Avarice Misapprehends Itself Almost Always. There Is No Passion Which More Often Will Miss Its Aim, Nor Upon Which The Present Has So Much Influence To The Prejudice Of The Future.

Truth Does Less Good In The World Than Its Appearances Do Harm.