The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.