Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

And where love ends, hate begins

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.