In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.