I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.