Nature teaches us to devour each other and gives us the example of all the crimes and all the vices which the social state corrects or conceals. We should love virtue; but it is well to know that this...
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.