Be The Flame, Not The Moth.

You Will Be Amused When You See That I Have More Than Once Deceived Without The Slightest Qualm Of Conscience, Both Knaves And Fools.

I Found That The Writer Who Says Sublata Lucerna Nullum Discrimen Inter Mulieres ('when The Lamp Is Taken Away, All Women Are Alike') Says True; But Without Love, This Great Business Is A Vile Thing.

By Recollecting The Pleasures I Have Had Formerly, I Renew Them, I Enjoy Them A Second Time, While I Laugh At The Remembrance Of Troubles Now Past, And Which I No Longer Feel.

Enjoy The Present, Bid Defiance To The Future, Laugh At All Those Reasonable Beings Who Exercise Their Reason To Avoid The Misfortunes Which They Fear, Destroying At The Same Time The Pleasure That They Might Enjoy.

I Saw That Everything Famous And Beautiful In The World, If We Judge By The Descriptions And Drawings Of Writers And Artists, Always Loses When We Go To See It And Examine It Closely.