"The beginning and root of all good is the pleasure of the stomach."

"The wise man does not deprecate life nor does he fear the end of life."

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."

"The man who best knows how to meet external threats makes into one family all the creatures he can."

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is n…"