One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

Enough or not...it will have to do