Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.