If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
What you can become you are already.
Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.