People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.