And Thereby Make Ourselves, As It Were,

So Far, I Have Been A Spectator In This Theater Which Is The World, But I Am Now About To Mount The Stage, And I Come Forward Masked.

Situations In Life Often Permit No Delay; And When We Cannot Determine The Course Which Is Certainly Best, We Must Follow The One Which Is Probably The Best. This Frame Of Mind Freed Me Also From The Repentance And Remorse Commonly Felt By Those Vacillating Individuals Who Are Always Seeking As Worthwhile Things Which They Later Judge To Be Bad.

The Principal Effect Of The Passions Is That They Incite And Persuade The Mind To Will The Events For Which They Prepared The Body.

The Entire Method Consists In The Order And Arrangement Of The Things To Which The Mind's Eye Must Turn So That We Can Discover Some Truth.

I Am Indeed Amazed When I Consider How Weak My Mind Is And How Prone To Error.