A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.