Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.