Christianity is Platonism for the people.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

All words are prejudices.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!