“Men argue. Nature acts.”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”