The Height Of Cleverness Is To Be

Hope, Deceiving As It Is, Serves At Least To Lead Us To The End Of Our Lives By An Agreeable Route.

We Easily Forgive Our Friends Those Faults That Do No Affect Us Ourselves.

The Height Of Ability In The Least Able Consists In Knowing How To Submit To The Good Leadership Of Others.

There Is A Form Of Eminence Which Does Not Depend On Fate; It Is An Air Which Sets Us Apart And Seems To Prtend Great Things; It Is The Value Which We Unconsciously Attach To Ourselves; It Is The Quality Which Wins Us Deference Of Others; More Than Birth, Position, Or Ability, It Gives Us Ascendance.

Perfect Valor Is To Do, Without A Witness, All That We Could Do Before The Whole World.