Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.