What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.