My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

I have stopped being a misanthrope.