There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?

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

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.