We Are More Solicitous That Men Speak

Custom Is A Second Nature, And No Less Powerful.

As For Extraordinary Things, All The Provision In The World Would Not Suffice.

It Is A Thorny Undertaking, And More So Than It Seems, To Follow A Movement So Wandering As That Of Our Mind, To Penetrate The Opaque Depths Of Its Innermost Folds, To Pick Out And Immobilize The Innumerable Flutterings That Agitate It.

The Curiosity Of Knowing Things Has Been Given To Man For A Scourge.

To Forbid Us Anything Is To Make Us Have A Mind To 't.