A small number of choice books are sufficient.

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.