The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.