Fortune Cures Us Of Many

Men's Happiness And Misery Depends Altogether As Much Upon Their Own Humor As It Does Upon Fortune.

Humility Is Often Only The Putting On Of A Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A Morecalculated Sort Of Pride, Which Debases Itself With A Design Of Being Exalted; And Though This Vice Transform Itself Into A Thousand Several Shapes, Yet The Disguise Is Never More Effectual Nor More Capable Of Deceiving The World Than When Concealed Under A Form Of Humility.

Fortune Makes Our Virtues And Vices Visible, Just As Light Does The Objects Of Sight.

We Promise According To Our Hopes And Perform According To Our Fears.

That Conduct Often Seems Ridiculous The Secret Reasons Of Which Are Wise And Solid.