And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Imagination decides everything.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.