Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

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

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

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.