The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.