“The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.”

“Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.”

“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”

“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”

“I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.”

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”

“One who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all”