That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.