To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.