Self-interest Speaks All Manner Of Tongues And

The Surest Proof Of Being Endowed With Noble Qualities Is To Be Free From Envy.

Those Who Give Too Much Attention To Trifling Things Become Generally Incapable Of Great Ones.

Humility Is Often Merely Feigned Submissiveness Assumed In Order To Subject Others, An Artifice Of Pride Which Stoops To Conquer, And Although Pride Has A Thousand Ways Of Transforming Itself It Is Never So Well Disguised And Able To Take People In As When Masquerading As Humility.

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.

Even Women Are Perfect At The Outset.