Man Is To Man Either A God

He Who Doesn't Sin, Is The Greatest Sinner Of All.

Jupiter, Not Wanting Man's Life To Be Wholly Gloomy And Grim, Has Bestowed Far More Passion Than Reason --you Could Reckon The Ration As Twenty-four To One. Moreover, He Confined Reason To A Cramped Corner Of The Head And Left All The Rest Of The Body To The Passions.

You'll See Certain Pythagorean Whose Belief In Communism Of Property Goes To Such Lengths That They Pick Up Anything Lying About Unguarded, And Make Off With It Without A Qualm Of Conscience As If It Had Come To Them By Law.

It Hardly Needs Explaining At Length, I Think, How Much Authority Or Beauty Is Added To Style By The Timely Use Of Proverbs. In The First Place Who Does Not See What Dignity They Confer On Style By Their Antiquity Alone?... And So To Interweave Adages Deftly And Appropriately Is To Make The Language As A Whole Glitter With Sparkles From Antiquity, Please Us With The Colours Of The Art Of Rhetoric, Gleam With Jewel-like Words Of Wisdom, And Charm Us With Titbits Of Wit And Humour.

From Hence, No Question, Has Sprung An Observation ... Confirmed Now Into A Settled Opinion, That Some Long Experienced Souls In The World, Before Their Dislodging, Arrive To The Height Of Prophetic Spirits.