Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.