To Praise Great Actions Is

It Requires Greater Virtues To Support Good Fortune Than Bad.

Nothing Is So Contagious As Example; And We Never Do Any Great Good Or Evil Which Does Not Produce Its Like.

We Should Not Be Upset That Others Hide The Truth From Us, When We Hide It So Often From Ourselves.

There Is Great Skill In Knowing How To Conceal One's Skill.

We Love Everything On Our Own Account; We Even Follow Our Own Taste And Inclination When We Prefer Our Friends To Ourselves; And Yet It Is This Preference Alone That Constitutes True And Perfect Friendship.