Miracles appear to be so, according to our ignorance of nature, and not according to the essence of nature the continually being accustomed to anything, blinds the eye of our judgment.

Barbarians are no more a wonder to us, than we are to them; nor with any more reason, as every one would confess, if after having travelled over those remote examples, men could settle themselves to reflect upon, and rightly to confer them, with their own.

Human reason is a tincture almost equally infused into all our opinions and manners, of what form soever they are; infinite in matter, infinite in diversity.

But I return to my subject.
There are peoples, where, his wife and children excepted, no one speaks to the king but through a tube.

In one and the same nation, the virgins discover those parts that modesty should persuade them to hide, and the married women carefully cover and conceal them.