Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

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

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.