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.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.