The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.