those who read or listen. We should talk, you should write for the instruction, and if it happens that you like it, do not repent, however, if it is used to suggest and to receive the truths which must instruct . So when he slipped in a book a few thoughts or few thoughts that have neither fire, nor turn, nor the vivacity of the other, although they seem to be allowed for the variety, to refresh the spirit , to make it more present and more attentive to what follows, unless they are also sensitive, familiar, informative, accommodated to the simple people, it is not permissible to neglect, the reader can condemn, and the author must be avoided: this is the rule. There’s another, and I interest that we want to follow, which is not to lose sight of my title, and think still, and all reading this book, it is the characters or morals of this world that I describe, (VIII) because although I often draws from the court of France and the men of my nation, however, can not restrict them to a single court, nor contain a single countries, without losing my book much of its extent and usefulness, differs from the plan that I got to paint men in general, as reasons that go into the order of chapters and Following some indifferent reflections in them. (IV) After this precaution if necessary, and which penetrates sufficiently the consequences, I think I can protest against any sorrow, any complaint, any malignant interpretation, false application and censorship against the cold and pleasant malicious players: ( V) must be read, and then be silent, or to report what they have read, and neither more nor less than what we read, and if we can sometimes not enough, he must still want to do: but for those conditions, an exact and scrupulous author is entitled to require