The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.