The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

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.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

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.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.