The passions are the voice of the body.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.