Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this . . . . The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents. . . . Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.

Just go on..and faith will soon return.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.