People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.