Rakes Are More Suspicious Than

Old Men, Imagining Themselves Under Obligation To Young Paramours, Seldom Keep Any Thing From Their Knowledge.

Those Commands Of Superiors Which Are Contrary To Our First Duties Are Not To Be Obeyed.

Every One, More Or Less, Loves Power, Yet Those Who Most Wish For It Are Seldom The Fittest To Be Trusted With It.

An Honest Heart Is Not To Be Trusted With Itself In Bad Company.

She Who Is More Ashamed Of Dishonesty Than Of Poverty Will Not Be Easily Overcome.