The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

To hold a pen is to be at war.