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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success