Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.