Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
The lucky person passes for a genius.