We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

We are made kind by being kind.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.