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

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

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

“if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal”