Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
What a lot of things I don't need.
The universe really is motion & nothing else.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.