One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.