You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.