The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

The road to the heart is the ear

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.