Rene Descartes

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.