[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Boredom: the desire for desires.