There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.