“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.”

“Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.”

“And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.”

“And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.”

“I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love. ”