In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

People who live according to the way of the world always complain about their lives

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.