For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.