A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Atheism isn't a religion, because atheism does not require faith. It takes no faith at all to not believe in a god. It just takes a lack of evidence.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
