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

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

Love truth, and pardon error.