When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.