"Le vicomte, percé d’une longueur de lame, Tomba, fit un sursaut ou deux, et rendit l’âme. Alors, en rajustant au vainqueur son pourpoint, L’un des soldats lui dit: ::Vous le haïssiez? :::— Point. — Peut-on vous demander la cause de l’affaire? — La couleur des cheveux qu’il convient qu’on préfère. Il était pour les noirs, moi je suis pour les blonds. — Vous avez été vif, mon gentilhomme… Allons! Pour cheveux blonds ou noirs faut-il qu’on se courrouce? — C’est vrai, dit le bretteur, car ma maîtresse est rousse."

"Silence! Voilá l’ennemi!"

"(Et) l’unique bonheur auquel on peut prétendre En ce monde, est de croire et non pas de comprendre."

"Du luxe, des haillons, de la clarté, des cris Et de la fange. C’est le trottoir de Paris !"

"(Que) la loi du devoir est une loi d’amour."

"Oh! comme les oiseaux doivent mourir l’hiver! Pourtant, lorsque viendra le temps des violettes, Nous ne trouverons pas leurs délicats squelettes Dans le gazon d’avril, où nous irons courir. Est-ce que les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir?"

"Parfois, dans un coin triste et noir pousse une fleur."

"Il faut donner, donner, donner !"

"Le temps qui s’écoule fait bien ; Et mourir ne doit être rien, Puisque vivre est si peu de chose."

"(Car) le poète a pour monnaie Des étoiles dans son gousset."

"Les anglais s’amusent tristement selon l’usage de leur pays."

"C'est une dangereuse épargne D'amasser tresor de regrets."

"A trompeur, trompeur et demy."

"Tout à part moi en mon penser m'encios, Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France."

"Chose qui plaist est à demy vendue."

"N’est elle de tous biens garnie, Celle que j'ayme loyaument?"

"Jeu qui trop dure ne vault rien, Tant va le pot à l'eau qui brise."

"Soit qu'elle danse, cante ou rie, Ou face quelque esbatement, Faictes en loyal jugement, Sans faveur et sans flatterie."

"Oncques feu ne fut sans fumée."

"L'habit le moine ne fait pas."

"Réveiller le chat qui dort."

"My ghostly fader, I me confesse, First to God and then to you, That at a window,—wot ye how?— I stale a cosse of grete sweteness."

"The smylyng mouth and laughyng eyen gray, The brestis rounde and long smal armys twayne."

"Elle a beaux yeulx et ne voit goutte."

"Dès qu'on est homme il faut faillir."

"Eh! sot! que n'attends-tu, pour les accommoder, Que les gens sont las de se battre?"

"(Donnez le même esprit aux hommes; Vous ôtez tout le sel de la société.) L’Ennui nâcquit un jour de l’Uniformité."

"La Haine veille et I'Amitié s'endort."

"Le Besoin, père de l'Adresse."

"The moment of our birth Did on us the death sentence pass."

"(Partout l'œeil surpris admire) Un désordre plein de beauté."

"Tout est dit, tout devient commun. Les Conquérans voudroient un nouveau monde; C'est aux Rimeurs qu'il en faut un."

"L'instant de notre naissance Fut pour nous un arrêt de mort."

"La Providence est la commune mère. Fiez-vous-y: mais ne la tentez pas."

"Des états la sombre origine, Les progrès, l’éclat, la ruine Repassent encore sous nos yeux; Et, présens à tout, nous y sommes Contemporains de tous les horames, Et citoyens de tous les lieux."

"Journalist: Does he share the opinion of Sciascia [...] that "for others science was a matter of will, for him a matter of nature"? To write Il était sept fois la révolution, I studied a lot the works of the founding fathers of quantum physics: Einstein, Pauli, Dirac, Schrödinger, Heisenberg... In all of them one can feel moments of discouragement, doubt, fatigue, alternating with moments of enthusiasm of intellectual joys. In Majorana, on the contrary, things have the air of advancing continuously, without obstacles, without the onset of any Eureka! Physics seems to flow through him with nothing to hold it back, without barriers."

"Journalist: [...] in Italy a scandal was caused by the dossier [...] Majorana and Eichmann, the secret in a photograph, in which the hypothesis that the physicist, after having joined Heisenberg in Germany, worked on the creation of the Nazi atomic bomb took shape. [...] Majorana, or rather someone who looked a lot like him, is portrayed next to Eichmann escaping to Argentina. It seems to me that you discard the Argentinian track..."}} I did not even raise this thesis because it seemed to me at least outlandish. After all, how can one support a thesis based solely on the alleged similarity of a photo taken thirteen years after Majorana's disappearance? On the other hand, there is no trace of Majorana in the German archives concerning his work on the atomic bomb - which are open to all and can be consulted -. And the Italian physicist's name did not even come up in 1945, when German scientists arrested in Germany were transferred to a secret residence in England, and conversations recorded without their knowledge for several months."

"We no longer exercise our critical faculties as soon as we like the thesis put forward. The role of a scientific council is to act as a lighthouse and beacon, to enlighten the political authorities, who must not make decisions without taking account of what the scientists say, i.e. not do what Donald Trump does."

"Majorana thought that the notion of symmetry allows one to grasp what is permanent in the flow of phenomena...In the world of elementary particles, interesting symmetries operate within spaces that only mathematicians know how to represent and that are distinct from three-dimensional physical space. These symmetries are directly related to the dynamic properties of physical systems, i.e. the way they behave under the effect of a force. And it may prove very fruitful to begin by identifying the fundamental symmetries that govern phenomena because they are at the source of the invariant quantities or structures that are capable of revealing deep reality."

"I'm a great believer in popularising science, but I've noticed that it's not very effective [...]. We treat our knowledge a bit like beliefs, and that creates a lot of confusion."

"Taking over from Arabs and Africans, it instituted the transatlantic slave trade, but it also engendered abolitionism and put an end to slavery before other nations did."

"[I]t is not hard to predict which one will crush the other once its objectives have been achieved. The Leftist intransigence that refuses any compromise with bourgeois society and cannot castigate too severely “little white men” actively collaborates with the most reactionary elements in the Muslim religion. But if the far Left courts this totalitarian theocracy so assiduously, it is perhaps less a matter of opportunism than of a real affinity. The far Left has never gotten over communism and once again demonstrates that its true passion is not freedom, but slavery in the name of justice."

"Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe."

"Every war, every crime against humanity among the damned of the Earth is supposed to be somewhat our fault and ought to lead us to confess our guilt, to pay endlessly for being a member of the bloc of wealthy nations."