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The Secret Pleasure Of A Generous Act Is The Great Mind's Great Bribe.

Seek Not To Know What Must Not Be Reveal, For Joy Only Flows Where Fate Is Most Concealed. A Busy Person Would Find Their Sorrows Much More; If Future Fortunes Were Known Before!

Prodigious Actions May As Well Be Done, By Weaver's Issue, As The Prince's Son.

The Fortitude Of A Christian Consists In Patience, Not In Enterprises Which The Poets Call Heroic, And Which Are Commonly The Effects Of Interest, Pride And Worldly Honor.

Men's Virtues I Have Commended As Freely As I Have Taxed Their Crimes.