What Keeps Us From Abandoning

We Do Not Lack Strength So Much As The Will To Use It; And Very Often Our Imagining That Things Are Impossible Is Nothing But An Excuse Of Our Own Contriving, To Reconcile Ourselves To Our Own Idleness.

The Man That Thinks He Loves His Mistress For Her Own Sake Is Mightily Mistaken.

Preserving The Serious Health Condition Is Usually Painful.

Love Of Glory, Fear Of Shame, Greed For Fortune, The Desire To Make Life Agreeable And Comfortable, And The Wish To Depreciate Others - All Of These Are Often The Causes Of The Bravery That Is Spoken So Highly Of By Men.

A Man Is Sometimes Better Off Deceived About The One He Loves, Than Undeceived.