Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.