> than into "Follow Nature," or,
> "Conduct your private affairs without injustice," as Plato, or
> anything else? But there, you will say, everything is contained in
> one word. Yes, but it is useless without explanation, and when we
> come to explain it, as soon as we unfold this maxim which contains
> all the rest, they emerge in that first confusion which you desired
> to avoid. So, when they are all included in one, they are hidden and
> useless, as in a chest, and never appear save in their natural
> confusion. Nature has established them all without including one in
> the other.
>
> 21. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our
> art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each
> keeps its own place.
>
> 22. Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of
> the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same
> ball, but one of us places it better.
>
> I had as soon it said that I used words employed before. And in the
> same way if the same thoughts in a different arrangement do not form
> a different discourse, no more do the same words in their different
> arrangement form different thoughts!
>
> 23. Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings
> differently arranged have different effects.
>
> 24. Language.--We should not turn the mind from one thing to another,
> except for relaxation, and that when it is necessary and the time
> suitable, and not otherwise. For he that relaxes out of season
> wearies, and he who wearies us out of season makes us languid, since
> we turn quite away. So much does our perverse lust like to do the
> contrary of what those wish to obtain from us without giving us
> pleasure, the coin for which we will do whatever is wanted.
>
> 25. Eloquence.--It requires the pleasant and the real; but the
> pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
>
> 26. Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after
> having painted it, add something more, make