"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."
"Compassion is the basis of all morality"
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
"One should use common words to say uncommon things"