It is not always wise to appear singular.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

I'm not that interested in people

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.