He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.