To Succeed In The World

The Prejudices Of Superstition Are Superior To All Others, And Have The Strongest Influence On The Human Mind.

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

If You Would Be Holy, Instruct Your Children, Because All The Good Acts They Perform Will Be Imputed To You.

Although Born In A Prosperous Realm, We Did Not Believe That Its Boundaries Should Limit Our Knowledge, And That The Lore Of The East Should Alone Enlighten Us.

Experience Constantly Proves That Every Man Who Has Power Is Impelled To Abuse It; He Goes On Till He Is Pulled Up By Some Limits. Who Would Say It! Virtue Even Has Need Of Limits.