Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.