A Little Folly Is Desirable In Him

Those Who Make A Practice Of Comparing Human Actions Are Never So Perplexed As When They Try To See Them As A Whole And In The Same Light; For They Commonly Contradict Each Other So Strangely That It Seems Impossible That They Have Come From The Same Shop.

An Orator Of Past Times Declared That His Calling Was To Make Small Things Appear To Be Grand.

Those Sciences Which Govern The Morals Of Mankind, Such As Theology And Philosophy, Make Everything Their Concern: No Activity Is So Private Or So Secret As To Escape Their Attention Or Their Jurisdiction.

It Is An Absolute Perfection... To Get The Very Most Out Of One's Individuality.

The Laws Of Conscience, Though We Ascribe Them To Nature, Actually Come From Custom.