Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.