Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London (6 June 1766) http://www.virginia1774.org/GMMerchants.html
La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent les plus sots habiles.
Variant translation: Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever.
Maxim 6.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
VIII, 48
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), p. 62
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 48
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.”
George Gaylord Simpson (1967) The Meaning of Evolution, revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 345.
Section I, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I
Les passions sont les seuls orateurs qui persuadent toujours. Elles sont comme un art de la nature dont les règles sont infaillibles; et l'homme le plus simple qui a de la passion persuade mieux que le plus éloquent qui n'en a point.
Variant translation: The passions are the only orators who always persuade. They are like a natural art, of which the rules are unfailing; and the simplest man who has passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent man who has none.
Maxim 8.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
