Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.