Bernard de FontenelleThinkers

Geometry is a technique born in Egypt, where the inundations of the Nile, by obliterating the bounds of the fields, made the people invent exact measures to distinguish every man's land from his neighbor's.

Philosophy is always founded on these two things: that we have a great deal of curiosity and very bad eyes.

Pleasure is dangerous lest we get stuck — pleasures are like a marshy land that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Poetry is the daughter of love.