A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.