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

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.