Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed. - Blaise Pascal

If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works, in which we see some traces of him because they are his images, how much more just is it to consider in the productions of minds the efforts which they make to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, and to remark wherein they attain it and wherein they wander from it, as I have endeavored to do in this study.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.