In Doubting We Come To Inquiry; By

In Doubting We Come To Inquiry; By Inquiry We Perceive The Truth.

The First Key To Wisdom Is Assiduous And Frequent Questioning.

In Fact We Say That An Intention Is Good, That Is, Right In Itself, But That An Action Does Not Bear Any Good In Itself But Proceeds From A Good Intention. Whence When The Same Thing Is Done By The Same Man At Different Times, By The Diversity Of His Intention, However, His Action Is Now Said To Be Good, Now Bad.

We Call An Intention Good Which Is Right In Itself, But The Action Is Good, Not Because It Contains Within It Some Good, But Because It Issues From A Good Intention.

And Now, My Friend, I Am Going To Expose To You All My Weaknesses. All Men, I Believe, Are Under A Necessity Of Paying Tribute At Some Time Or Other To Love, And It Is Vain To Strive To Avoid It. I Was A Philosopher, Yet This Tyrant Of The Mind Triumphed Over All My Wisdom; His Darts Were Of Greater Force Than All My Reasonings, And With A Sweet Constraint He Led Me Wherever He Pleased.