Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.