Men argue. Nature acts.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.