Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

There can be no happiness without good health