Human Nature Craves Novelty.

Compassion And Shame Come Over One Who Considers How Precarious Is The Origin Of The Proudest Of Living Beings: Often The Smell Of A Lately Extinguished Lamp Is Enough To Cause A Miscarriage. And To Think That From Such A Frail Beginning A Tyrant Or Butcher May Be Born! You Who Trust In Your Physical Strength, Who Embrace The Gifts Of Fortune And Consider Yourself Not Their Ward But Their Son, You Who Have A Domineering Spirit, You Who Consider Yourself A God As Soon As Success Swells Your Breast, Think How Little Could Have Destroyed You!

Why Do We Believe That In All Matters The Odd Numbers Are More Powerful?

Grief Has Limits, Whereas Apprehension Has None. For We Grieve Only For What We Know Has Happened, But We Fear All That Possibly May Happen.

The Perverted Ingenuity Of Man Has Given To Water The Power Of Intoxicating Where Wine Is Not Procured. Western Nations Intoxicate Themselves By Moistened Grain.

The Desire To Know A Thing Is Heightened By Its Gratification Being Deferred.