Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

"There is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night". False quote, misattributed to Voltaire by Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever!

Jest with life: for that only is it good.

It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers.

Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.

Can we not seek the author of life but in the obscure labyrinth of theology?

Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him!