What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.