
Source: The Story of his Life Told by Himself (1898), p. 25
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Source: The Story of his Life Told by Himself (1898), p. 25
Frame of Government (1682)
Context: When the great and wise God had made the world, of all his creatures, it pleased him to chuse man his Deputy to rule it: and to fit him for so great a charge and trust, he did not only qualify him with skill and power, but with integrity to use them justly. This native goodness was equally his honour and his happiness; and whilst he stood here, all went well; there was no need of coercive or compulsive means; the precept of divine love and truth, in his bosom, was the guide and keeper of his innocency. But lust prevailing against duty, made a lamentable breach upon it; and the law, that before had no power over him, took place upon him, and his disobedient posterity, that such as would not live comformable to the holy law within, should fall under the reproof and correction of the just law without, in a judicial administration.
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 160
“A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections