No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The history of a man is in his character.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.