Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Sacrifice life to truth.
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
