Our Probity Is Not Less

Our Envy Always Outlives The Felicity Of Its Object.

We Endeavor To Make A Virtue Of The Faults We Are Unwilling To Correct.

A Wise Man Should Order His Interests, And Set Them All In Their Proper Places. This Order Is Often Troubled By Greed, Which Putsus Upon Pursuing So Many Things At Once That, In Eagerness For Matters Of Less Consideration, We Grasp At Trifles, And Let Go Things Of Greater Value.

A Gentleman May Love Like A Lunatic, But Not Like A Beast.

Self-love Increases Or Diminishes For Us The Good Qualities Of Our Friends, In Proportion To The Satisfaction We Feel With Them; And We Judge Of Their Merit By The Manner In Which They Act Towards Us.