How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies