I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
We are all guilty of the good we did not do
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.