I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
God created woman to tame man.