"It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and mira…"

"Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable tru…"

"Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does …"

"People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other st…"

"Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older."

"If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 eq…"

"Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions."

"One has to do something new in order to see something new."

"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many …"