I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.