Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.