They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!