Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.