Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
I detest war; it ruins conversation
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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.
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools