Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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.
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.