The Applause We Give Those Who Are

Smallness Of Mind Is The Cause Of Stubbornness, And We Do Not Credit Readily What Is Beyond Our View.

A Fool Has Not Material Enough To Be Good. [fr., Un Sot N'a Pas Assez D'etoffe Pour Etre Bon.]

We Do Not Praise Others, Ordinarily, But In Order To Be Praised Ourselves.

Nothing Ought In Reason To Mortify Our Self-satisfaction More That The Considering That We Condemn At One Time What We Highly Approve And Commend At Another.

Reason Alone Is Insufficient To Make Us Enthusiastic In Any Matter.