"The only certain antidote to the fear of death is the knowledge that we are already dead."

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

"The general mistake is to suppose that we shall do something great in the future."

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it t…"

"The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing."