I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.