Philosopher

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Art is the proper task of life.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.