Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.