“Someone with an animal qarakter won't be replaced, on cost of the others he live and make himself happy.”

“If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.”

“He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.”

“In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.”

“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”

“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

“Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”

“Is it foolishness for someone to make himself a light when he is surrounded by darkness and misguidance?”

“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”