It Is Far Better To Be Deceived

Luxury And Excessive Refinement Are Sure Forerunners Of The Decadence Of States, Because When All Individuals Seek Their Own Interests They Neglect The Public Weal.

We Should Wish For Few Things With Eagerness, If We Perfectly Knew The Nature Of That Which Was The Object Of Our Desire.

Too Great Refinement Is False Delicacy, And True Delicacy Is Solid Refinement.

Fortune Cures Us Of Many Faults That Reason Could Not.

Our Actions Are Like The Terminations Of Verses, Which We Rhyme As We Please.