If ... It Is Not In My

Nothing Is More Fairly Distributed Than Common Sense: No One Thinks He Needs More Of It Than He Already Has.

[about Pierre De Fermat] It Cannot Be Denied That He Has Had Many Exceptional Ideas, And That He Is A Highly Intelligent Man. For My Part, However, I Have Always Been Taught To Take A Broad Overview Of Things, In Order To Be Able To Deduce From Them General Rules, Which Might Be Applicable Elsewhere.

We Never Understand A Thing So Well,and Make It Our Own, As When We Have Discovered It For Ourselves.

With Me, Everything Turns Into Mathematics.

The Principal Use Of Prudence, Of Self-control, Is That It Teaches Us To Be Masters Of Our Passions, And To So Control And Guide Them That The Evils Which They Cause Are Quite Bearable, And That We Even Derive Joy From Them All.