The people say what they like and then I do what I like
Pleasure is the most real good in this life.
It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.
Be more than you seem to be.
Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.