When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.
I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.