Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.