We Are Almost Always Guilty Of The

Most People Grow Old Within A Small Circle Of Ideas, Which They Have Not Discovered For Themselves. There Are Perhaps Less Wrong-minded People Than Thoughtless.

Our Failings Sometimes Bind Us To One Another As Closely As Could Virtue Itself.

The Character Of False Wit Is That Of Appearing To Depend Only Upon Reason.

More Are Taken In By Hope Than By Cunning.

With Kings, Nations, And Private Individuals, The Strongest Assume To Themselves Rights Over The Weakest, And The Same Rule Is Followed By Animals, By Matter, By The Elements, So That Everything Is Performed In The Universe By Violence. And That Order Which We Blame With Some Appearance Of Justice Is The Most Universal, Most Absolute, Most Unchangeable, And Most Ancient Law Of Nature.