I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.