The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.

There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, there are two kinds of people. One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowle

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.