Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Everything intelligent is so boring.