To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart..

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all thi….

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them..

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never ….

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place..