All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.