Illusory Joy Is Often Worth

The Reading Of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With The Finest Minds Of Past Centuries.

Instead I Ought To Be Grateful To Him Who Never Owed Me Anything For Having Been So Generous To Me, Rather Than Think That He Deprived Me Of Those Things Or Has Taken Away From Me Whatever He Did Not Give Me.

A State Is Better Governed Which Has Few Laws, And Those Laws Strictly Observed.

Here I Beg You To Observe In Passing That The Scruples That Prevented Ancient Writers From Using Arithmetical Terms In Geometry, And Which Can Only Be A Consequence Of Their Inability To Perceive Clearly The Relation Between These Two Subjects, Introduced Much Obscurity And Confusion Into Their Explanations.

Desire Awakens Only To Things That Are Thought Possible.