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Satiety makes it boring
“Do we think that choirboys take great pleasure in music? Not so; satiety makes it boring to them. Feasts, dances, masquerades, tourneys, delight those who do not see them often and who have looked forward to seeing them; but to anyone who makes them an ordinary pastime, the taste of them becomes insipid and unpleasant.…
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An extreme disparity between them
“…Our practice is so blind that we make little or no account of it; whereas if we consider a peasant and a king, a nobleman and a plebeian, a magistrate and a private citizen, a rich man and a pauper, there immediately appears to our eyes an extreme disparity between them, though they are different,…
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The limits of possibility
“How many things of slight probability there are, testified to by trustworthy people, which, if we cannot be convinced of them, we should at least leave in suspense! For to condemn them as impossible is to pretend, with rash presumption, to know the limits of possibility.” 1.27 “It is a folly to measure the true…