Sweet Exists By Convention, Bitter By Convention,

Our Sins Are More Easily Remembered Than Our Good Deeds.

One Great Difference Between A Wise Man And A Fool Is, The Former Only Wishes For What He May Possibly Obtain; The Latter Desires Impossibilities.

According To Convention There Is A Sweet And A Bitter, A Hot And A Cold, And According To Convention, There Is An Order. In Truth, There Are Atoms And A Void.

Everywhere Man Blames Nature And Fate Yet His Fate Is Mostly But The Echo Of His Character And Passion, His Mistakes And His Weaknesses.

I Am The Most Travelled Of All My Contemporaries; I Have Extended My Field Of Enquiry Wider Than Anybody Else, I Have Seen More Countries And Climes, And Have Heard More Speeches Of Learned Men. No One Has Surpassed Me In The Composition Of Lines, According To Demonstration, Not Even The Egyptian Knotters Of Ropes, Or Geometers.