But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.