Let an understanding man imagine human nature originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived. Essays
“It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.” The Prince
Very little is needed to make a happy life. Book VII
“If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.” Seagull
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