Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.