The Object Of Music Is A Sound.

Variant: When It Is Not In Our Power To Follow What Is True, We Ought To Follow What Is Most Probable.

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.

A Person Has Two Passions For Love And Abhorrence. A Big Disposition To Excessiveness Has Just A Love, Because It Is More Ardent And Stronger.

If I Go For The Alternative Which Is False, Then Obviously I Shall Be In Error; If I Take The Other Side, Then It Is By... Chance That I Arrive At The Truth, And I Shall Still Be At Fault.... In This Incorrect Use Of Free Will May Be Found The Privation Which Constitutes The Essence Of Error.

In The Matter Of A Difficult Question It Is More Likely That The Truth Should Have Been Discovered By The Few Than By The Many.