Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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

Better is the enemy of good.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.