Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.