Be More Than You Seem

The People Say What They Like And Then I Do What I Like

I Have No Fault To Find With Those Who Teach Geometry. That Science Is The Only One Which Has Not Produced Sects; It Is Founded On Analysis And On Synthesis And On The Calculus; It Does Not Occupy Itself With The Probable Truth; Moreover It Has The Same Method In Every Country.

Be More Than You Seem To Be.

To Your Care And Recommendation Am I Indebted For Having Replaced A Half-blind Mathematician With A Mathematician With Both Eyes, Which Will Especially Please The Anatomical Members Of My Academy.

Little Minds Try To Defend Everything At Once, But Sensible People Look At The Main Point Only; They Parry The Worst Blows And Stand A Little Hurt If Thereby They Avoid A Greater One. If You Try To Hold Everything, You Hold Nothing.