When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Only those live who do good.