Wise People Are Foolish If They Cannot

There Is Nothing Useless In Nature; Not Even Uselessness Itself

The Height And Value Of True Virtue Consists In The Facility, Utility, And Pleasure Of Its Exercise; So Far From Difficulty, That Boys, As Well As Men, And The Innocent As Well As The Subtle, May Make It Their Own; And It Is By Order And Good Conduct, And Not By Force, That It Is To Be Acquired.

If You Have Known How To Compose Your Life, You Have Done A Great Deal More Than The Person Who Knows How To Compose A Book. You Have Done More Than The One Who Has Taken Cities And Empires.

The Public Weal Requires That Men Should Betray, And Lie, And Massacre.

Saying Is One Thing And Doing Is Another