the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.