He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.