Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.