Maxims and Moral Reflections
Translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell
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REFLECTIONS; OR, SENTENCES AND MORAL MAXIMS
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
1.—What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
2.—Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.
3.—Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain many unexplored territories there.
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