Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.