Book: Three colors of time. Page 5

Failure to comply with the will of the priest dooms the rebellious boy to eternal torment in hell.

The best pages of the great French materialists, people of free mind and inquisitive research, gave him a calm stability in life, liberated his will from all kinds of authorities, brought the light of pure analysis and clear dialectics into the area where people usually build fantastic conjectures or create false constructions for enslavement someone else's thought and will.

Clarity of mind, understanding of things and characters - this is the best way to find yourself in an era.

Life is good only when the center of gravity becomes that which will not be taken away from me.

The new age brings new forms of life. An era of great labor is coming, but, unfortunately, everyone who surrounds me now thinks only about profit. Take away their money and they will be miserable. Deprive these useless people of the thirty-thousandth rent - and they will instantly perish.

Without the heavy ballast provided by labor, the ship of life becomes the toy of any wind.

Bayle, among books, considered himself the happiest person who fell into a chosen society.

Serf life is disgusting to the peasant: he does not care where to die - in the master's stable or on the battlefield.

Religion is necessary for the people. The people are asking for it.

A peculiar calculation of property! The wealth of the landlords, in most cases soulless cattle, is determined by such a strange concept as the soul. What a huge difference between the Russians I saw in Paris! These are elegant people, very amiable and even brilliant in mind. But what are they turning into in their homeland, in their villages!