It is not love we should have painted as blind, but self-love.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind; it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Let us work without theorizing ... 'tis the only way to make life endurable.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

To succeed in chaining the multitude you must seem to wear the same fetters.