However Great The Advantages Given

What Men Call Friendship Is No More Than A Partnership, A Mutual Care Of Interests, An Exchange Of Favors - In A Word, It Is A Sort Of Traffic, In Which Self-love Ever Proposes To Be The Gainer.

The Moderation Of Men In The Most Exalted Fortunes Is A Desire To Be Thought Above Those Things That Have Raised Them So High.

Eloquence: Saying The Proper Thing And Stopping.

No Man Is Clever Enough To Know All The Evil He Does.

The Virtues And Vices Are All Put In Motion By Interest.