Perfect Clarity Would Profit The Intellect But

Custom Creates The Whole Of Equity, For The Simple Reason That It Is Accepted.

He Who Does Not Know His Way To The Sea Should Take A River For His Guide.

Something Incomprehensible Is Not For That Reason Less Real.

Vanity Is Illustrated In The Cause And Effect Of Love, As In The Case Of Cleopatra.

I Do Not Admire A Virtue Like Valour When It Is Pushed To Excess, If I Do Not See At The Same Time The Excess Of The Opposite Virtue, As One Does In Epaminondas, Who Displayed Extreme Valour And Extreme Benevolence. For Otherwise It Is Not An Ascent, But A Fall. We Do Not Display Our Greatness By Placing Ourselves At One Extremity, But Rather By Being At Both At The Same Time, And Filling Up The Whole Of The Space Between Them.