Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices,

Modesty Is That Feeling By Which Honorable Shame Acquires A Valuable And Lasting Authority.

You Must Therefore Love Me, Myself, And Not My Circumstances, If We Are To Be Real Friends.

A Nation Can Survive Its Fools, And Even The Ambitious. But It Cannot Survive Treason From Within.

Nothing Is So Unpredictable As A Throw Of The Dice, And Yet Every Man Who Plays Often Will At Some Time Or Other Make A Venus-cast: Now And Then He Indeed Will Make It Twice And Even Thrice In Succession. Are We Going To Be So Feebleminded Then As To Aver That Such A Thing Happened By The Personal Intervention Of Venus Rather Than By Pure Luck?

Nothing Contributes To The Entertainment Of The Reader More, Than The Change Of Times And The Vicissitudes Of Fortune.