Praise Is Always Pleasing, Let It Come

Their [the Skeptics'] Way Of Speaking Is: "i Settle Nothing. . . . I Do Not Understand It. . . . Nothing Seems True That May Not Seem False." Their Sacramental Word Is . . . , Which Is To Say, I Suspend My Judgment.

I Quote Others Only In Order The Better To Express Myself.

There Is Nothing Which So Poisons Princes As Flattery, Nor Anything Whereby Wicked Men More Easily Obtain Credit And Favor With Them.

Wisdom Has Its Excesses, And Has No Less Need Of Moderation Than Folly.

I Find That The Best Virtue I Have Has In It Some Tincture Of Vice.