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

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

The more you know, the less sure you are.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.