Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.
We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.
A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.