'There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'. |
"There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude." |
A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist |
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. |
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them |
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. |
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. |
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably |
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. |
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. |
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. |
A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist |
A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich |
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. |
A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king. |