A Fool Has Not Material Enough To

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

Our Self-love Can Less Bear To Have Our Tastes Than Our Opinions Condemned.

It Is Praiseworthy Even To Attempt A Great Action.

A Respectable Man May Love Madly, But Not Foolishly.

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.