What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.