The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.