I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.