Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the….

[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow ….

Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the pr….

The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be to….