In every century Princes have been found to love the sciences and even to cultivate them, to attract Savants to their palaces and to reward by their favors and their amity men who afforded them a sure and constant refuge from world-weariness, a sort of disease to which supreme power seems particularly prone.


Eloge des académiciens de l'Académie royal des sciences, Forward, I

Nicolas de Condorcet Quotes

In every century Princes have been found to love the sciences and even to cultivate them, to attract Savants to their palaces and to reward by their...

In every century Princes have been found to love the sciences and even to cultivate them, to attract Savants to their palaces and to reward by their...

In every century Princes have been found to love the sciences and even to cultivate them, to attract Savants to their palaces and to reward by their...

In every century Princes have been found to love the sciences and even to cultivate them, to attract Savants to their palaces and to reward by their...