Our Aversion To Lying Is

What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often No More Than Disguised Ambition, Which Overlooks A Small Interest In Order To Secure A Great One.

In The Presence Of Some People We Inevitably Depart From Ourselves: We Are Inaccurate, We Say Things We Do Not Feel, And Talk Nonsense. When We Get Home We Are Conscious That We Have Made Fools Of Ourselves. Never Go Near These People.

The Desire To Seem Clever Often Keeps Us From Being So.

Treachery Is More Often The Effect Of Weakness Than Of A Formed Design.

Our Virtues Are Often, In Reality, No Better Than Vices Disguised.