Absence Diminishes Mediocre Passions And Increases Great

We Often Act Treacherously More From Weakness Than From A Fixed Motive.

The Secret Of Pleasing In Conversation Is Not To Explain Too Much Everything; To Say Them Half And Leave A Little For Divination Is A Mark Of The Good Opinion We Have Of Others, And Nothing Flatters Their Self-love More.

A Resolution Never To Deceive Exposes A Man To Be Often Deceived.

Passion Makes Idiots Of The Cleverest Men, And Makes The Biggest Idiots Clever.

The Extreme Pleasure We Take In Speaking Of Ourselves Should Make Us Apprehensive That It Gives Hardly Any To Those Who Listen To Us.