What Often Prevents Our Abandoning Ourselves To

One Man May Be More Cunning Than Another, But No One Can Be More Cunning Than All The World.

There Is Nothing Men Are So Generous Of As Advice.

There Are Various Sorts Of Curiosity; One Is From Interest, Which Makes Us Desire To Know That Which May Be Useful To Us; And The Other, From Pride Which Comes From The Wish To Know What Others Are Ignorant Of.

Some Crimes Get Honor And Renown By Being Committed With More Pomp, By A Greater Number, And In A Higher Degree Of Wickedness Thanothers. Hence It Is That Public Robberies, Plunderings, And Sackings Have Been Looked Upon As Excellencies And Noble Achievements, And The Seizing Of Whole Countries, However Unjustly And Barbarously, Is Dignified With The Glorious Name Of Gaining Conquests.

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