People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.