I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.