Old Age Is A Tyrant,

Love's Greatest Miracle Is The Curing Of Coquetry.

Some People Displease With Merit, And Others' Very Faults And Defects Are Pleasing.

Passions Often Produce Their Contraries: Avarice Sometimes Leads To Prodigality, And Prodigality To Avarice; We Are Often Obstinate Through Weakness And Daring Through Timidity.

Honest People Will Respect Us For Our Merit: The Public, For Our Luck.

Generally Speaking, We Would Make A Good Bargain By Renouncing All The Good That People Say Of Us, Upon Condition They Would Say No Ill.