Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."