Our Merit Gains Us The Esteem Of

The Contempt Of Riches In The Philosophers Was A Concealed Desire Of Revenging On Fortune The Injustice Done To Their Merit, By Despising The Good She Denied Them.

There Are More Defects In Temperament Than In The Mind.

Self-love, As It Happens To Be Well Or Ill Conducted, Constitutes Virtue And Vice.

It Is Often Laziness And Timidity That Keep Us Within Our Duty While Virtue Gets All The Credit.

Consolation For Unhappiness Can Often Be Found In A Certain Satisfaction We Get From Looking Unhappy.