The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.