We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.