There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

And where love ends, hate begins