Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.