Epithet Quote by Jean de la Bruyere
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
![“The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fcf/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_built_the-court-is-like-a-palace-built-of-marb_77288.jpg)
![“For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e97/anonymous-1_epithet_for-other-great-mathematicians-or-philos_222162.jpg)
