The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
