He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

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.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.