After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other