A Man Is Sometimes Better

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

You Are Never So Easily Fooled As When Trying To Fool Someone Else.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often Nothing But An Assemblage Of Different Actions, And Of Different Interests, That Fortune Or Our Industry Knows How To Arrange.

Sometimes A Fool Has Talent, But Never Judgment.

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.