There Is Nothing Men Are

What We Take For Virtue Is Often But An Assemblage Of Various Ambitions And Activities That Chance, Or Our Own Astuteness, Have Arranged In A Certain Manner; And It Is Not Always Out Of Courage Or Purity That Men Are Brave, And Women Chaste.

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

There Are Few People Who Would Not Be Ashamed Of Being Loved When They Love No Longer.

There Are Heroes Of Wickedness, As There Are Of Goodness.

It Is More Often From Pride Than From Ignorance That We Are So Obstinately Opposed To Current Opinions; We Find The First Places Taken, And We Do Not Want To Be The Last.