Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Pursued by our origins... we all are.
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.