Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.