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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not read more

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be read more

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.