To one who advised him to trust in revelation rather than in reason, he answered: “Though I were at times to find the fruit unreal which I gather by my natural understanding, yet this would not make me otherwise than content; because in the gathering I am happy, and pass my days not in sighing and sorrow, but in peace, serenity and joy.”11 “If Napoleon had been as intelligent as Spinoza,” says a great sage, “he would have lived in a garret and written four books.”12
