Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.