The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.