History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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 more a man knows, the less he talks.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.