“[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it ...”

“Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.”

“I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.”

“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”

“It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, ...”

“Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.”

“Death means nothing to us”

“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”

“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”

“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”

“My body is not a temple. Its a skip,”

“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”