Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.