Wish Not So Much To Live Long

All Wars Are Follies, Very Expensive And Very Mischievous Ones. In My Opinion, There Never Was A Good War Or A Bad Peace. When Will Mankind Be Convinced And Agree To Settle Their Difficulties By Arbitration?

"we Hold These Truths To Be Sacred And Undeniable" In A Draft Of The Declaration Of Independence Changes It Instead Into An Assertion Of Rationality. The Scientific Mind Of Franklin Drew On The Scientific Determinism Of Isaac Newton And The Analytic Empiricism Of David Hume And Gottfried Leibniz. In What Became Known As "hume's Fork" The Latters' Theory Distinguished Between Synthetic Truths That Describe Matters Of Fact, And Analytic Truths That Are Self-evident By Virtue Of Reason And Definition.

Search Others For Their Virtues, Thyself For Thy Vices.

Can Anything Be Constant In A World Which Is Eternally Changing?

The Next Thing Most Like Living One's Life Over Again Seems To Be A Recollection Of That Life, And To Make That Recollection As Durable As Possible By Putting It Down In Writing.