We Are More Solicitous That Men Speak

All We Do Is To Look After The Opinions And Learning Of Others: We Ought To Make Them Our Own.

There Is A Plague On Man, The Opinion That He Knows Something.

And If Nobody Reads Me, Shall I Have Wasted My Time, When I Have Beguiled So Many Idle Hours With Such Pleasant And Profitable Reflections?

Fortune Does Us Neither Good Nor Hurt; She Only Presents Us The Matter, And The Seed, Which Our Soul, More Powerfully Than She, Turns And Applies As She Best Pleases; Being The Sole Cause And Sovereign Mistress Of Her Own Happy Or Unhappy Condition.

Our Great And Glorious Masterpiece Is To Live Appropriately.