Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

Women only love those that they don’t know.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.