If I love you, what business is it of yours?
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.