It Is The Chiefest Point Of Happiness

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known.

Jupiter, Not Wanting Man's Life To Be Wholly Gloomy And Grim, Has Bestowed Far More Passion Than Reason --you Could Reckon The Ration As Twenty-four To One. Moreover, He Confined Reason To A Cramped Corner Of The Head And Left All The Rest Of The Body To The Passions.

Great Eagerness In The Pursuit Of Wealth, Pleasure, Or Honor, Cannot Exist Without Sin.

Providence Has Decreed That Those Common Acquisitions, Money, Gems, Plate, Noble Mansions, And Dominion, Should Be Sometimes Bestowed On The Indolent And Unworthy; But Those Things Which Constitute Our True Riches, And Which Are Properly Our Own, Must Be Procured By Our Own Labor.

The Majority Of The Common People Loathe War And Pray For Peace; Only A Handful Of Individuals, Whose Evil Joys Depend On General Misery, Desire War.