And I Shall Always Hold Myself More

Human Wisdom Remains Always One And The Same Although Applied To The Most Diverse Objects And It Is No More Changed By Their Diversity Than The Sunshine Is Changed By The Variety Of Objects Which It Illuminates.

The First Precept Was Never To Accept A Thing As True Until I Knew It As Such Without A Single Doubt.

The Principal Use Of Prudence, Of Self-control, Is That It Teaches Us To Be Masters Of Our Passions, And To So Control And Guide Them That The Evils Which They Cause Are Quite Bearable, And That We Even Derive Joy From Them All.

Whatever I Have Up Till Now Accepted As Most True And Assured I Have Gotten Either From The Senses Or Through The Senses. But From Time To Time I Have Found That The Senses Deceive, And It Is Prudent Never To Trust Completely Those Who Have Deceived Us Even Once.

We Never Understand A Thing So Well,and Make It Our Own, As When We Have Discovered It For Ourselves.