Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

"To persevere is to triumph."

"The greatest fear is the fear of one's own potential."

"In every moment lies the seed of infinite possibility."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats those who can do him no good."

"To understand death is to understand life."

"The foundation of all virtue is honesty."

"In the garden of life, every moment is a flower."

"The style is the man himself."

"Genius is patience."

"Nature is not cruel, only indifferently complex."

"The more we know, the more we realize how much we do not know."

"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations."

"To prevent deterioration requires constant work."

"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe things because one wishes them to be so."

"Silence is the communion of reasonable men."

"One must always change, renew, rejuvenate oneself."

"The only way to achieve true success is through sustained effort."

"Every instant is an age that vanishes and is done."

"Man can do nothing without the means of life."

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."

"Precision is the virtue of the accurate observer."

"We receive three educations: from our family, from our schoolmasters, and from the world."

"The test of true love is to be willing to lose everything for another's happiness."

"A mountain that rose in our lifetime is like a child born to us."

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall."

"Natural history must begin with the facts, not with hypotheses."

"Time is the stage on which all human ambitions play out."

"The grand work of man is to choose and apply."

"Freedom consists in doing what one desires."

"To be forgotten is to cease to exist."