but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.