In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.