Perfect Valor Is To Do,

Pride Does Not Wish To Owe And Vanity Does Not Wish To Pay.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.

The Constancy Of The Wise Is Only The Talent Of Concealing The Agitation Of Their Hearts.

We Are More Often Treacherous Through Weakness Than Through Calculation.

We Judge So Superficially Of Things, That Common Words And Actions Spoke And Done In An Agreeable Manner, With Some Knowledge Of What Passes In The World, Often Succeed Beyond The Greatest Ability.