I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
History should be written as philosophy.
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?