The Truest Mark Of Being

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.

Flattery Is A Kind Of Bad Money, To Which Our Vanity Gives Us Currency.

It Is A Wearisome Disease To Preserve Health By Too Strict A Regimen.

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.

We Speak Little If Not Egged On By Vanity.