Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.