Like the forces of nature, the force of passion proves how great are the obstacles it crushes, obstacles it removes with fury.
The right to live and be happy is an empty phantom to the man without the means for such a thing.
The wonderful and the beautiful in a person are inconceivable without a harmonious development of the body and health.
Coercion, by its nature, is harmful: it brings disappointment to the shamed and punished, it destroys his character, it arouses in him anger towards those who forbid him and who punish him, leading him to a hostile conflict with them.
Progress is the aspiration towards the elevation of man to the rank of man.
Life is empty and colorless only for colorless people, who talk about feelings and needs, but who are not able to have special feelings and needs, except to draw.
He is only wise who is good by being as wise as he is good.
The child who is least subject to insults develops as a person very aware of his dignity.
Look at your wife as you looked at her when she was a bride, knowing that she has the right, at every moment, to say to you: "I am dissatisfied with you, leave me"; look at her like this, and she will give you the same poetic sensation as when she was a bride.
Justice requires you to defend people who are suffering. Are they good? - That has nothing to do, as long as they are in pain.
Talent doubles anyone's price.
Work must be in accordance with man's strengths. This is bad, i.e. unpleasant, when it exceeds them.
One whose principles are not clear not only harbors confusion in the mind but maintains chaos in personal affairs as well.
In the moral sciences there are theoretical answers to almost all important problems in life, but in many cases people do not have the means to put into practice those things that the theory indicates.
Scientific literature saves people from ignorance, and artistic literature from violence and vulgarity.
The imagination acts on the senses with even greater energy when its images are more vivid.
The character of the means must be similar to the character of the proposed goal, only then the means can lead to the achievement of the goals. Evil means are only fit for evil ends.
Man's nature indicates what kind of rest man likes.
For the working man every war is harmful; for him, only the war waged in order to repel the enemies from the borders of the homeland is useful.
Honor is one and the same for women and men, girls, married women, old men and children: "don't lie," "don't steal," "don't get drunk"; only from such norms, concerning all people, can a code of "honor" be constituted, in the true sense of the word.
The sense of one's own dignity develops only according to the independent proprietary state.
I speak, of course, only of good mothers, when I say that it is good for sons to have some intimate friends in their mothers.
Actors who can't act have confidence in themselves; as are bankruptcies.
Anarchy and art are unitary. They are synonyms. The one who threw a bomb is a poet or an artist, because that great moment for him is capital.
English Radicalism has always been an outfit rather than a conviction; if it had been a conviction, it could have achieved the victory.
Artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.
Architecture is the alphabet of giants.
The poor sometimes and formerly revolted against bad government; the rich - always and against everything.
Adventure can be crazy; but the hero must be rational.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbor, but also our enemies; probably because for the most part, they are one and the same person.