The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.