Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real exi… - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real exi…
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for… - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for…
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think. - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immodera… - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immodera…
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
There is nothing good in love but the physical part. - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
There is nothing good in love but the physical part.
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, becau… - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, becau…
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