Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

This poem will never reach its destination.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.