Vitam Impendere Vero (i Consecrate My Life

I Have Read Descriptions Of Paradise That Would Make Any Sensible Person Stop Wanting To Go There.

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.

Raillery Is A Mode Of Speaking In Favor Of One's Wit At The Expense Of One's Better Nature.

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.

Honor Sets All The Parts Of The Body Politic In Motion, And By Its Very Action Connects Them; Thus Each Individual Advances The Public Good, While He Only Thinks Of Promoting His Own Interest.