To Learn Is A Natural Pleasure, Not

A Fool Contributes Nothing Worth Hearing And Takes Offense At Everything.

All Human Actions Have One Or More Of These Seven Causes: Chance, Nature, Compulsions, Habit, Reason, Passion, Desire.

Only An Armed People Can Be Truly Free. Only An Unarmed People Can Ever Be Enslaved.

Youth Is Easily Deceived Because It Is Quick To Hope.

At First He Who Invented Any Art That Went Beyond The Common Perceptions Of Man Was Naturally Admired By Men, Not Only Because There Was Something Useful In The Inventions, But Because He Was Thought Wise And Superior To The Rest. But As More Arts Were Invented, And Some Were Directed To The Necessities Of Life, Others To Its Recreation, The Inventors Of The Latter Were Always Regarded As Wiser Than The Inventors Of The Former, Because Their Branches Of Knowledge Did Not Aim At Utility.