If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.