One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

He that hunts others, must run himself.