There Is Great Skill In Knowing How

Weakness Is More Opposed To Virtue Than Is Vice.

Fortune Makes Our Virtues And Vices Visible, Just As Light Does The Objects Of Sight.

Passion Makes Idiots Of The Cleverest Men, And Makes The Biggest Idiots Clever.

We Are Deceived If We Think That Mind And Judgment Are Two Different Matters: Judgment Is But The Extent Of The Light Of The Mind. This Light Penetrates To The Bottom Of Matters; It Remarks All That Can Be Remarked, And Perceives What Appears Imperceptible. Therefore We Must Agree That It Is The Extent Of The Light In The Mind That Produces All The Effects Which We Attribute To Judgment.

Self-interest Speaks All Manner Of Tongues And Plays All Manner Of Parts, Even That Of Disinterestedness.