The lie is a condition of life.
I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.