If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

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

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

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.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.