Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!