When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
When the individual feels, the community reels.
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
No social stability without individual stability.