→ 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.
→ If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
→ Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
→ If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
→ I only wish that I was as sure of any one thing as he is of everything.
→ Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal. While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.