Organize one's values in the order of their worth

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.