Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

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.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.