“Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits.”

“I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle.”

“Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.”

“Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.”

“We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.”

“When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.”

“One nation, under God, with consciousness – the practical man serves the highest abstraction with juggling training.”