As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine