"Lo spaccio envisages a society in which the natural religion of the Egyptians, in its purest sense, and the speculative intellect of the Greeks would coincide in a sociopolitical structure patterned after that of the Roman Republic."

["Nourrir le corps, Nourrir l'esprit" / "Eloge de la lenteur" / "Philosophie, science et vie chez Giordano Bruno"]

"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."